An experienced movement lawyer, law professor, and movement strategist, Purvi has spent her career at the intersection of law and social movements. Over the past 18 years, Purvi has created a range of movement lawyering initiatives to politicize, organize and deploy thousands of lawyers to work collaboratively with grassroots organizers to shift culture, systems and power. Most recently, Purvi founded Movement Law Lab in 2018 to build a new bench of legal organizations and lawyers to flank progressive/Left social movements around the world. In 2015, in the aftermath of the Ferguson uprisings, Purvi co-founded Law For Black Lives, a national network of 5,000 lawyers committed to using law to build a world where #BlackLivesMatter. Prior to that, Purvi was the founding Director of the Bertha Justice Institute at the Center for Constitutional Rights, the first movement lawyering institute in the U.S. Prior to that, Purvi co-founded the Community Justice Project of Miami in 2006. While there, she represented taxi drivers, tenant unions, public housing residents, and immigrants rights groups. Before becoming a lawyer, Purvi worked as a community organizer with youth in Miami, students in India, and families of incarcerated youth in California. For her work, Purvi has been awarded an Ashoka Fellowship, Echoing Green Fellowship, Soros Equality Fellowship, Harvard Law School Wasserstein Fellowship, Miami Foundation Fellowship, and a New Voices Fellowship. Purvi holds a BA in Political Science and Social Policy from Northwestern University and J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.