Cindy Gao

Cindy Gao is a recent graduate of Columbia University where she majored in the now-dismantled Comparative Ethnic Studies program. As an undergraduate she was the Political Chair of the Asian American Alliance and helped to revive the Ethnic Studies activist group Students Promoting Empowerment and Knowledge (SPEaK). She was also a member of Radical CUNTS, LUCHA, ROOTEd, and Freedom School, as well as a resident at the Intercultural Resource Center. She is currently working as an investigator for The Bronx Defenders, a non-profit provider of free and holistic legal counsel to people involved with the criminal justice system in the Bronx.