Sheila Bapat
Sheila Bapat is Senior Program Officer at the RISE Together Fund where she works with a team of five women to support grassroots Muslim, Arab and South Asian-led advocacy and organizing throughout the country. Before joining RISE Together Fund, Sheila served as Program Director at California Bar Foundation, where she launched a statewide Legal Fellowship program which helped to build capacity for legal aid while generating career entry points for law students and attorneys of diverse backgrounds. Sheila received her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. from the University of Arizona.