Avinash Kar

Avinash Kar currently serves as Senior Attorney and Senior Director for Health & Food at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a position held since October 2007, with previous roles as Senior Attorney and Director of State Health Policy, as well as Staff Attorney. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Attorney at the Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment from September 2005 to October 2007, and earlier positions as Assistant Account Executive at FCB San Francisco (1999-2001) and Consultant at Monitor Company (1998-1999). Avinash Kar earned a Bachelor's degree in English from Williams College (1994-1998) and a law degree from the University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (2002-2005).