Kudrat D. Chaudhary

Kudrat D. Chaudhary was born and raised in Chandigarh, India and always had a penchant for women’s rights and social justice founded in law and policy. After completing her law degree from the Army Institute of Law, Mohali, India and becoming an attorney in India, she moved to the U.S. in 2018 to study at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. At Fletcher, she graduated with an LL.M in International Law with a specialization in Gender Analysis in International Law. 

In August 2019, she moved to San Francisco to work as an Asylum Law Clerk: Gender Rights Specialist at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe and since then has been working with refugees and asylum seekers. Along with this, Chaudhary co-chairs the San Francisco Women’s March and has been very active in immigrant and gender rights advocacy.

Kudrat is also a published author and her debut novel, ‘Laiza’ about the human trafficking of women from Nepal to India after the Nepal Earthquake was published in 2016. She is a TEDX speaker and her talk on women being conditioned to support the patriarchy was released in June 2021. She is also a certified Mediator from the Australian Disputes Center, Sydney.