Deepa.Iyer

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Deepa Iyer

Deepa.Iyer
Deepa Iyer is a South Asian American activist, writer, and lawyer. Deepa is currently the Senior Fellow at the Center for Social Inclusion where she provides analysis, commentary and scholarship on equity and solidarity in America’s changing racial landscape. In November 2015, Iyer published her first book, We Too Sing America: South Asian, Arab, Muslim and Sikh Immigrants Shape Our Multiracial Future (The New Press). Iyer previously served as the Executive Director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) for nearly a decade.