Kavitha Sreeharsha is the Director of the Immigration Portfolio at the Emerson Collective, where she develops and supports philanthropic partnerships focused on national and local immigration advocacy and services to immigrants. Previously, Kavitha led a Career Pathways initiative for the Sobrato Family Foundation; expanded language access policies to benefit limited English proficient immigrants at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice; and spent over a decade working with nonprofits on immigrant rights as a direct services immigration attorney. Kavitha received her bachelor’s degree from U.C. Berkeley and J.D. from U.C. Hastings College of the Law.