PURVI SHAH Consultant

Purvi Shah, winner of the inaugural SONY South Asian Social Services Award in 2008, is a content expert in issues related to violence against women, language access, policy advocacy, and media including non-profit film and website communications. She is currently working as a consultant, including on a project with the Asian & Pacific Islander Institute on Domestic Violence and Office on Violence Against Women. For nearly eight years, Purvi served as the Executive Director of Sakhi for South Asian Women, a community-based anti-domestic violence organization. In addition, she has been a board member and program committee chair for the New York Women’s Foundation as well as an instructor on South Asian and American literature university courses. Her debut book of poetry, Terrain Tracks (New Rivers Press 2006), garnered the Many Voices Project prize.