Continuing Conversation on Race and White Privilege: Caste in America

  Dalit American activist and author Thenmozhi Soundararajan has been working to end caste oppression in America and around the world for decades. Efforts are being made to ban caste discrimination in NJ, but this potential ban is being blocked by certain influential groups. Learn more about how to dismantle caste apartheid at Not in Our Town’s Continuing Conversation Zoom-only program.  Click here to register for the Zoom link.

Thenmozhi Soundararajan is a Dalit Civil rights artist, organizer, and theorist who has worked with hundreds of organizations to better understand the urgent issues of racial, caste, and gender equity. Working across disciplines she is an innovative strategist and thinker that has built bridges between many communities around the world.

Through her work at Equality Labs, Thenmozhi has mobilized the South Asian American community to confront their historical trauma and to break the silence about caste, and to commit to ending caste apartheid, gender-based violence, white supremacy, and religious intolerance. Thenmozhi previously co-founded Third World Majority, an international media training organization and collective that supported people from disenfranchised

Her intersectional, cross-pollinating work—research, education, art, activism, and digital security—helps to create a more generous, global, expansive, and inclusive definition of South Asian identity, along with safe spaces from which to honor the stories of these communities.