Rachna Agarwal

Rachna Agarwal (she/her/hers) received her J.D. from the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law. While in law school, Rachna was part of the Criminal Defense Clinic, where she represented individuals facing misdemeanor charges and submitted clemency petitions to the New York Governor's office on behalf of individuals serving life sentences. As a law student advocate for Fedfam4Life, a non profit centered on freeing women from the prison industrial complex, Rachna assisted jailhouse lawyers in women's federal prison with clemency petitions and compassionate release motions that were submitted to the Department of Justice. She also worked with parole applicants through the Parole Preparation Project, and with immigrant communities targeted by the government under the guise of national security and counterterrorism through the CLEAR Project. Before law school, Rachna was a community organizer and worked with youth impacted by the criminal punishment system on various healing justice initiatives. Rachna earned her Bachelor's in Economics from New York University.