Rekha Nair (she, her, hers)
Rekha Nair is a first-generation immigrant and Phoenician. She is a proud graduate of Arizona State University and a former teacher; she taught middle school math in the South Bronx, New York through Teach for America and later high school in the Dominican Republic. Her commitment to public interest earned her a Toll Public Interest Scholarship to attend the University of Pennsylvania Law School (L'12). After graduating she clerked for the Honorable Lois Bloom, U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Eastern District of New York before being awarded a Toll Public Interest Post-Graduate fellowship to come back home to Arizona to represent her immigrant community at the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. In the years that followed she wore many hats at the Florence Project and briefly worked at the Arizona Federal Public Defenders office. She is also deeply invested in the local community – serving as a founding board member of both Trans Queer Pueblo (TQPueblo) and the Phoenix Legal Action Network (PLAN). She continues to collaborate closely with TQPueblo and she became Executive Director of PLAN in July 2021. She loves chocolate and speaking Spanish; she abhors injustice and most fruit.