The daughter of South Asian immigrants, Neha Mahajan has supported social justice and community organizing efforts for over 15 years. As a young activist, she developed political consciousness in movements for immigrant justice, youth organizing, ending violence against women of color and dismantling the prison industrial complex. Locally she served as Co-Executive Director of the Chinook Fund, Colorado’s only social justice foundation, where she provided leadership around progressive movement building, cross-class organizing, collective leadership and dismantling oppression in the philanthropic and non-profit sectors. Neha also served as Co-Executive Director at Survivors Organizing for Liberation, where she oversaw financial management and fundraising for the statewide organization dedicated to LGBTQ justice and youth organizing.
Neha is now the Director of 9to5 Colorado, leading statewide campaigns for paid sick days, family medical leave, affordable housing/transit and other critical issues affecting low-wage working women. She is also currently on the Board of Directors of GIFT (Grassroots Institute of Fundraising Training) and member of Standing in Our Power, a national network of women of color committed to transforming leadership for social justice organizations & movements. Neha is deeply committed to mobilizing resources, supporting the leadership of those most impacted and strengthening movements for social change by centering women and LGBTQ people of color.