Anuja Thatte is an Assistant Counsel in LDF’s DC office, where she primarily works on political participation, education equity, and criminal justice matters. Anuja was part of the LDF team that challenged the Trump Administration’s federal Executive Order 13950 banning diversity training and speech by federal contractors and grantees. Anuja also is involved in litigations against incursions on racial-justice speech, the right to protest, and the right to vote, including through lawsuits challenging Florida’s anti-protest bill, the pepper spraying of peaceful protestors at an October 2020 march to the polls in North Carolina, and attempts to intimidate state and local officials from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election.
Prior to LDF, Anuja served as the Public Interest and Commercial Litigation associate at a boutique trial firm in New York City, where her pro bono practice included serving as lead counsel on criminal justice, immigration, and economic justice matters. Anuja also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Shira A. Scheindlin of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Anuja received her J.D. from Stanford Law School, where she served as an Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of Complex Litigation and received the clinic awards for the Environmental Law Clinic and Three Strikes Project. She also received a B.S. with honors in Urban and Regional Studies from Cornell University and was named a Merrill Presidential Scholar.
Anuja is a member of the bars of New York State, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Supreme Court.
