Nisha Agarwal
Nisha Agarwal (she/her) is a Deputy Executive Director at the International Refugee Assistance Project, where she oversees Policy, Communications, and Legal Strategy, and is building IRAP’s new climate refugee movement. Previously, Nisha served as Commissioner of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs in the de Blasio Administration, building landmark initiatives like IDNYC and Cities for Action. In de Blasio’s second term, she served as Senior Advisor to the Deputy Mayor to boost civic engagement, build DemocracyNYC’s efforts on immigration, people with disabilities, and justice involved communities. A child of immigrants from India, Nisha became a public interest lawyer out of Harvard Law School, leading the Health Justice Program at the NY Lawyers for the Public Interest. She is also the former deputy director and co-founder of the Center for Popular Democracy and the executive director of the Immigrant Justice Corps.