Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Dawinder Singh Sidhu

Law Professor, Georgetown University

Dawinder S. Sidhu is a law professor who teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional law and criminal law. He has taught at Georgetown, Maryland, Baltimore, and New Mexico, and held research positions at Georgetown, Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford. He has worked at the Supreme Court of the United States, U.S. Sentencing Commission, U.S. District Court, U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. His writings have appeared in The Atlantic, New Republic, and Baltimore Sun, among other places. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Guru Nanak Foundation of America, the oldest gurdwara in Maryland, which his father helped found.

Harbir Kaur Bhatia

Head of Community Benefit & Innovation Division at Silicon Sage

Harbir is a trusted community leader in professional and social networks. Today she heads the Community Benefit & Innovation Division at Silicon Sage and previously founded the Digital Transformation Practice at Selectiva Systems, and founded ooNee Studios–a Digital Transformation, Media & Marketing Services company. She started working in Lockheed Martin as a Systems Engineer, then moved into the software and consulting industry, and also has been a serial entrepreneur. Her education includes a Masters in Engineering and a Bachelors of Electrical Engineering. Sikhi inspires her to strive for excellence, take responsibility for the world around her, and recognize all as equal.

Alongside, she has been a community organizer for most of her life, and considers herself a civic entrepreneur at heart. Her motto is "Be a tide that raises all boats", and hence supports initiatives that promote continuous learning, innovation, and economic and social empowerment. Harbir serves on a variety of boards and organizations such as Board Member of Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce, Economic Development Committee, The Women's Forum, Board Member of SC Library Foundation, San Jose Gurdwara Relations Committee, Santa Clara Cultural Commission, Advisor to Joy of SEWA, TiE Con Leadership Team – and more.

Most recently she launched IK Onkar Bridges, a tourism and social impact company. She has received multiple awards for her leadership, "Leadership In Business", "The Community Hero Award", "Women's Empowerment: Inspiring Achievement Award", State of California Assembly Recognition for "Bettering Community", and more. Harbir loves creating awareness, connecting people and innovation. She is on a constant quest to create value and make things better!

Jas Singh Sajjan

Manager of Public Affairs & Strategic Communications, San Francisco 49ers

Prior to joining the 49ers, Jas lived in Washington, D.C. and worked as a Government Relations Senior Associate at the Glover Park Group. At GPG, he worked for clients across a wide spectrum of industries, ranging from sovereign countries to ride-sharing companies, and energy trade associations.

Outside of the office, Jas sits on the Advisory Board for the National Sikh Campaign, with a focus on policy initiatives. On behalf of the organization, Jas led a Congressional letter to President Obama, asking him to visit a Gurdwara before he left office. The letter garnered bipartisan support, with 20 Members of Congress signing on. While the President was unable to visit a Gurdwara, the letter did spark more active engagement with the Administration. Additionally, Jas represented the National Sikh Campaign at two Federal interagency religious discrimination panels in Newark, NJ and Birmingham, AL and helped with the launch of the Know Your Neighbor initiative at the Obama White House.

Jas holds a B.A. from American University. He currently serves on the board of the Mission City Community Fund in Santa Clara, CA.

Serene Kaur Singh

Truman and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado; Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University

Serene Singh is a Boettcher, Truman and Fulbright Scholar at the University of Colorado with majors in Political Science and Journalism and a minor in Leadership Studies. She serves as Chief Justice of her Student Government and President of the Political Science Honors Society. As Founder of the National Sikh Youth Program, Colorado Bhangra Team (Punjabi Indian folk dance), and CU Boulder Sikh Student Association, Serene is passionate about challenging stereotypes and spreading love. A former America's Junior Miss, Serene's pageantry experience inspires her to empower women worldwide, which has led her to create The Serenity Project nonprofit to empower at-risk women, work for Mrs. Obama and the Girls Opportunity Alliance to improve girls' education, and represent the United States as a Dalai Lama Fellow, Top 60 in the world Global Changemaker, and most recently... a 2019 Rhodes Scholar, the very first female in the history of the University of Colorado to win this prestigious award. Her other hobbies include painting, rapping, snowboarding, and videography.

Sumeet Kaur

Analyst at U.S. Department of Justice

Sumeet Kaur is a founding member, former Chief of Staff, and current Advisory Board member for the National Sikh Campaign. Since the beginning, Sumeet has been an integral part in forming the identity and leading the direction of the organization.

Sumeet's wide-range of interests and constant advocacy have landed her in positions working for an environmental non-profit, a women's health organization, and the civil service.

She previously worked as a program manager for EcoSikh, an NGO that organizes the Sikh community around environmental issues. Sumeet was also a fellow for the American Security Project, where she researched and wrote on national security policy.

Currently, as an analyst in the public sector, Sumeet's work focuses on security issues. She is based out of the Washington, D.C. area.

 

Hans Sahni

Hollywood Producer

Hans Sahni is a Hollywood producer and Head of Content for Will Ferrell's Big Money Players comedy podcast network with iHeart Media. An east coast native and graduate of Columbia University, Hans has worked behind the scenes on films, television, and digital media, from Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN to the Nickelodeon comedy LEGENDARY DUDAS. His digital work for Funny Or Die garnered over 50 million views and numerous Webby and Shorty Awards that he really should count in order to write a more impressive bio.

In 2019, Hans directed and co-wrote the National Sikh Campaign's Shorty Award-winning and Webby-nominated comedy sketch "Diversity Day," produced and distributed by Funny Or Die.

Anisha Singh

Civil Rights Attorney, Political Strategist, Radio Host, Adjunct Professor

Anisha is an award-winning civil rights attorney, political strategist, radio host, adjunct professor, and organizer building campaigns to push for progress in America. Anisha is the current Director of Judiciary and Democracy Affairs at Planned Parenthood Federation of America and also serves as an adjunct professor at New York University. Previously, Anisha was the senior organizing director for Generation Progress, where she developed national organizing strategies to bring the experiences of 18- to 35-year-olds to on-the-ground actions in target states.

Prior to joining Generation Progress, Anisha served as the campaign manager for Legal Progress at American Progress. There, she shaped the conversation around the nation’s judicial process by managing unprecedented grassroots organization efforts across the country to educate Americans on the need to fill judicial vacancies with diverse, progressive judges. She previously served as a policy attorney and project manager for United Sikhs, where she focused on human and civil rights advocacy on behalf of minority communities internationally, with an emphasis on post-9/11 discrimination concerns.

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