Harsimran Kaur

Harsimran Kaur is a unique intellectual youth of USA as she has both legal qualifications as well as a Bachelor Degree in History from Haverford College. After doing her Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School, she worked in a “of counsel” capacity, assisting with lobbying efforts and acting as a liaison to federal agencies since 2001. Harsimran was previously an associate at Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, LLC, a litigation boutique firm specializing in federal civil rights matters and race-based employment discrimination in Washington D.C. During her tenure, she litigated individual, multi plaintiff, and complex class action cases. Harsimran also held a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Alfred Nance of the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, where she worked on a variety of civil and felony criminal matters. Her success in the career was making her popular, when she joined Sikh Coalition’s Legal Team in 2007 and become the Legal Director in 2008. It was here that she started doing work for the community with a view to protect them from hate crimes, work place discriminations and for their religious rights. During all these years of her association with the Sikh Coalition, she has secured high impact legal victories against multiple Fortune 500 employers and government agencies, ushered in a landmark anti-bullying settlement, successfully taken the United States military to court, and fought and protected the rights of hundreds of Sikh American clients who have faced discrimination and hate in the wake of 9/11. In the process, she has fostered long-term pro bono relationships with some of the leading law firms across the United States, and established lasting partnerships with other legal aid organizations that safeguard the rights of Sikhs and other minorities across America. Apart from being recognized as an expert in certain areas of legal advocacy, she is also invited to speak on social and religious issues. Her services as a Legal Director for the Sikh Coalition have made her a good Sikh role model.