Chitra Aiyar

Ms. Aiyar is a staff attorney in our legal services program, providing individual representation and advocacy of behalf of African Services' clients in housing, employment and discrimination cases. Before joining African Services, she consulted at the Brennan Center for Justice on their Gulf Coast Technical Assistance Project, advocating for an equitable rebuilding process for Hurricane Katrina survivors and served as the Workers' Rights Fellow at New York Jobs with Justice. Prior to law school, Chitra worked in international development, first as a program officer at Grameen Foundation USA, promoting the Grameen Bank's microcredit peer-lending model, and then as a Fulbright Scholar, studying the impacts of the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee's primary education program. Chitra holds a BA in development studies from University of California at Berkeley and a JD from New York University School of Law. She speaks some Bangla, Tamil and Spanish, in addition to English.