Anita Sinha
Senior Attorney
Anita Sinha, a member of Advancement Project’s Strategic Initiatives Program, advocates for inclusive development on behalf of low-income residents in the post-Katrina Gulf Coast, and in cities across the country where communities are facing displacement in the name of redevelopment. Drawing on her extensive litigation and policy advocacy experience on behalf of immigrants, Sinha also dedicates her time to immigrant justice issues, with a particular focus on advocating for immigrant rights in the context of racial justice. Sinha started her legal career as a Skadden fellow at the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, where she represented immigrant crime survivors and conducted post-9/11 advocacy, including leading the successful effort to enact the first city ordinance in the country after 9/11 limiting the local enforcement of immigration laws. Sinha also has expertise in the intersection of immigration and labor laws from conducting impact litigation and legislative advocacy at the National Immigration Law Center, and in the intersection of criminal and immigration laws after directing a deportation defense clinic at the International Institute of the East Bay. At Advancement Project, Sinha has litigated Anderson v. Jackson, a class-action lawsuit on behalf of displaced public housing residents in New Orleans, has co-authored a law review article with co-director Judith Browne-Dianis entitled, Exiling the Poor: The Clash of Redevelopment and Fair Housing in Post-Katrina New Orleans, and has produced a short film, This is My Home, documenting the post-Katrina fight for public housing. Sinha earned her undergraduate degree from Barnard College, Columbia University, and received her law degree in 2001 from New York University School of Law, where she served as an articles editor for the New York University Law Review.
Sinha is admitted in California, New York, and Washington DC.
Filed under Staff, Reconstructing Justice Post-Katrina, Inclusive Development
