Panel: Navigating the First 100 Days of the Trump Administration
Date: April 10, 2025
Aneesha Gandhi is the associate director of the National Immigrant Justice Center’s Protection-Based Relief Project, where she oversees both NIJC’s Asylum Project and LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Initiative. She has led NIJC’s LGBTQ Immigrant Rights Initiative since 2019 and been part of that project since 2013. Apart from overseeing NIJC’s protection-based projects, she provides representation to noncitizens seeking asylum, and other types of immigration relief before USCIS, the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals and advises pro bono attorneys representing asylum seekers through NIJC. Prior to joining NIJC, Aneesha was a legal fellow at the Diocese of Kalamazoo, Immigration Assistance Program. During law school, she interned for NIJC, the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice, the Greater Boston Legal Services’ Immigration Unit, and the Vera Institute. She holds a B.A. from Smith College and a J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law. Aneesha is licensed in Michigan.
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