Anurima Bhargava
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Radio: Bio of Anurima Bhargava
December 10, 2006
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Anurima Bhargava is assistant counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. There, she is actively engaged in education litigation and advocacy, with a focus on voluntary integration and affirmative action issues.
For the last several months, Bhargava has been deeply involved in the litigation, advocacy and public education efforts in two voluntary integration cases – Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education - currently under review by the Supreme Court. These cases will determine whether school districts can continue to take voluntary race-conscious steps to promote integration and avoid racial isolation in schools. She is also co-lead counsel representing parent interveners in three Proposition 209 challenges to voluntary integration efforts in California.
Bhargava continues to advise institutions of higher education on providing equal access and opportunities to all students through their admissions, financial aid and scholarship, and outreach programs.
Prior to her current position, Bhargava worked as a staff attorney at the New York City department of education and served as a law clerk to U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman in the Southern District of New York.
She received her law degree from Columbia Law School, where she served as notes editor of the Columbia Law Review, and graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in government.
-- Bio provided by the Mainstream Media Project
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