Anirvan Chatterjee (he/him) is a South Asian American activist and community-based historian from the San Francisco Bay Area.
He co-curates the Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour, a monthly exploration of a century of South Asian queer, feminist, anti-racist, and anti-colonial organizing in the United States. Based on years of archival research and oral histories, Anirvan has led over 300 tours, which have been recognized with the national Asian Pacific Islanders in Historic Preservation award. Learn more and sign up at BerkeleySouthAsian.org, where you can also find links to related projects like BlackDesiSecretHistory.org, a visual introduction to South Asian and Black solidarity history.
Anirvan is currently a core organizer with the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action and Bay Area Solidarity Summer, and previously, with groups like Brown and Green and the Desi Queer Helpline. He recently led the successful campaign to establish Kala Bagai Way, a new street name in downtown Berkeley, California, honoring one of the first South Asian women on the West Coast and a survivor of housing discrimination in the 1910s.
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