Sharada Jambulapati is the daughter of Indian immigrants and was raised in the Deep South as her father worked as the only immigrant farmer in the region and her mother shuffled between jobs as a factory seamstress, janitor, and nanny. Growing up on a farm in rural Georgia, Sharada experienced the complex web of dependence, racial backlash, and willful ignorance of the immigrant experience, which instilled Sharada with a deep commitment to pursue civil rights and racial justice work in the Deep South. Sharada is a graduate of Stanford University and University of California, Berkeley School of Law. She clerked for the District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals. She is currently a senior staff attorney at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice practice group.
