Deepa Iyer is the Executive Director of South Asian American Leaders of Tomorrow, a national non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring the full and equal participation by South Asians in the civic and political life of the United States. Deepa previously served as Trial Attorney at the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, where she represented individuals suffering from workplace discrimination due to their immigration status or national origin, and assisted with the Division's efforts to address backlash discrimination in the wake of September 11th. More recently, she was the Legal Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, where she institutionalized a multilingual legal referral hotline and organized a pan-ethnic coalition that successfully advocated for linguistic access to government services and benefits in the District of Columbia.
