Aarti Shahani is a co-founder of and organizer with Families for Freedom, a multi-ethnic defense network by and for immigrants facing deportation. FFF supports prisoners and their families fighting life exile; provides organizing support to targeted communities; and is waging campaigns to change the deportation system. Aarti is also a Revson Fellow at Columbia University. She dove into immigrant rights work when her uncle was deported and her father placed in proceedings.