Participatory Budgeting Advisory Committee

Shivani Parikh – Gujarati and Bangla

Shivani Parikh is a civil rights and racial justice advocate for South Asian American families building power. A first-generation lawyer and the daughter of Indian immigrants, she is proud to live and work in the world’s borough and to be recognized on the 2025 City & State Queens Power 100 list. She is a co-founder of the South Asian Legal Defense Fund, an advisory board member of Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, an Interfaith Civic Leadership Academy Fellow with the Interfaith Center of New York, and a beVisioneers-Mercedes Benz fellow. Shivani is an alumna of Cornell University and Fordham Law School.