Veena Dubal

Veena B. Dubal is a Staff Attorney at the Asian Law Caucus (ALC). Ms. Dubal joined ALC as a Berkeley Law Foundation Fellow in 2008 when she began a project to address labor conditions in San Francisco’s largely immigrant taxi driver community. Currently, Ms. Dubal focuses on issues of civil rights in the context of national security, including racial profiling at the border, local law enforcement profiling, and FBI surveillance. Ms. Dubal received the South Asian Bar Association of Northern California (SABA-NC) Public Interest Attorney of the Year Award in 2009, and she currently serves as the Co-Chair of Civil Rights for SABA-NC. Prior to coming to ALC, Ms. Dubal was a Fulbright Scholar in India where she completed Ph.D. research on access to justice and the legal aftermath of the anti-minority violence that swept the state of Gujarat in 2002. While in law school at the University of California at Berkeley, she worked on issues of racism, imperialism and war in her capacity as Volunteer Coordinator with the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action. Ms. Dubal received her B.A. with honors from Stanford University in International Relations with a minor in Feminist Studies.