Silky Shah

Silky Shah is the Communications Director of the Detention Watch Network (DWN), a national coalition of organizations and individuals working to reform the U.S. immigration detention and deportation system. Silky has been active in the immigrant rights, anti-war, prison reform and racial justice movements for nearly a decade as an organizer, campaign strategist, and journalist. She has served as an organizer and board member at Grassroots Leadership and as an outreach organizer at Democracy Now. In addition to her work with DWN, she co-produces Asia Pacific Forum, a pan-Asian radio show on Pacifica’s WBAI 99.5 FM in New York.