Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary, young lawyer from Chandigarh, has been named the Commissioner of Immigrants Rights in San Francisco
She holds this position for the first time among South Asians.
Kudrat will deal with asylum applicants,on the basis of gender-based violence or persecution they have experienced in their home countries.
The Board of Supervisors gave Chaudhary a unanimous vote of support for the job.
She completed her studies at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy after receiving her law degree from the Army Institute of Law, where she also studied for a year. She did her schooling from Vivek High School, Chandigarh.
She has been a powerful advocate in San Francisco, the leader of the San Francisco Women's March and the first South Asian Commissioner on the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission.
As a Commissioner, her job would be to advice the Mayor and the Board of Supervisors on immigrant issues in the city and county of SF.
Report by Ananya Bhardwaj
Graphics by Sanskar Dubey
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