Aparna Shah

Aparna Shah has worked for social change and expanded democracy with immigrant and low-income communities for over 15 years. She is the Executive Director of Mobilize the Immigrant Vote (MIV), a statewide, multi-ethnic coalition of grassroots organizations that builds the power and capacity of immigrant communities through electoral engagement. Prior to MIV, Aparna worked to advance the self-determination and reproductive justice of women, people of color, and queer communities as well as spent several years working to transform a public middle school into a vibrant youth and community center in San Francisco’s Mission District.

Aparna is an inaugural Fellow for a New California with the Rockwood Leadership Institute, sits on the Center for American Progress Women's Health Leadership Network, and holds a Masters of Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She was born in Manila, grew up in Mumbai, and now lives with her family in Oakland, CA.