Chavi Khanna Koneru

Chavi Khanna Koneru (born 1983) is an American journalist and lawyer who is the executive director and co-founder of North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT). She worked for the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in 2008 before going on to the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. She was also the a policy director for NARAL Pro-Choice North Carolina (NaralNC) before she co-founded and directed NCAAT in 2016. She has been honored by Cary Magazine and awarded the Gold Futures Challenge Prize.

Early life and education Koneru was born in 1983 in Oakland, California, into a Punjabi Hindu family. She moved to Durham, North Carolina, when she was six years old. She also earned a graduate degree in law in 2009 from the same university. After graduation, she worked at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the pro-choice organization NaralNC before co-founding North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT) in 2016 with Ricky Leung. NCAAT is a non-partisan nonprofit organization whose mission is to increase civic engagement in the Asian community in North Carolina. She is also an executive committee member of the Asian American Power Network.