Neha Mahajan is the daughter of South Asian Punjabi immigrants and brings nearly 20 years of experience fighting for social justice. As a young activist, she developed political consciousness in movements such as immigrant justice, youth organizing, ending violence against women of color, and dismantling the prison industrial complex.
Over the last 14 years, Neha has led multiple philanthropic and community organizations in the Colorado ecosystem. She served as Co-Executive Director of Chinook Fund, Co-Executive Director of Survivors Organizing for Liberation, and State Director of 9to5 Colorado. Neha has supported a number of local organizing campaigns, from police accountability to housing justice; she played a critical leadership role in building the campaign that won paid family and medical leave for Colorado workers. She also worked as the National Organizing Director for Family Values at Work, where she helped their national network center the leadership of women of color, invest more deeply in grassroots organizing, and work more intentionally at the intersection of race, class, and gender.
Neha helped to co-found Transformative Leadership for Change (TLC) in 2017, and was honored to step into an Executive Director role to steward the vision of TLC in 2020.
Neha is currently Board Treasurer for Cultivando (Commerce City, Colorado) and on the coordinating committee of the NorthStar Network (national). She is a graduate of the Satya Yoga Cooperative BIPOC teacher training program and a certified coach through the Coaching for Healing, Justice and Liberation school. She also weaves together social justice, healing, and spiritual practices in her own coaching/consulting business.