Chakraborty, Rini

Rini Chakraborty

Rini Chakraborty, (she/her) the Senior Director of NEO Philanthropy’s Four Freedoms Fund (FFF) and has been an integral part of the FFF team for nearly a decade, serving as a Senior Program Officer and most recently Senior Director of Programs. Since she joined FFF in 2012, Rini launched and spearheaded a national grantmaking initiative focused on dramatically reducing enforcement, detention, deportation and the criminalization of immigrants. She also developed and led newer funding strategies, including the Texas Fund and Ending Child Detention & Family Separation initiative. Rini’s career spans more than two decades fighting for and advancing the rights of immigrants, communities of color, and low-wage workers striving to achieve justice.Prior to joining FFF, Rini was Amnesty International USA’s Western Regional Director, where she led campaigns on death penalty abolition, migrant rights, criminal justice reforms, and international human rights.