Prachi Patankar

Prachi Patankar is a writer and activist based in New York. Her speaking and organizing is grounded in feminist, anti-caste, and solidarity commitments. Her writing has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Indian Express, Al Jazeera, Women’s Studies Quarterly, and Jacobin. She has been invited to speak at venues such as MoMA PS1, Cornell University, Swarthmore College, and Harvard University. Patankar has been interviewed in media including Democracy Now, Jewish Currents, and National Public Radio. 

Patankar was raised in rural India, by a freedom-fighting grandmother and parents who led feminist and working-class movements. For over two decades in New York, she has been involved in work which links the local and the global, police brutality and war, migration and militarization, race and caste, women of color feminism and global gender justice. 

Patankar has worked on a diversity of innovative projects to link justice movements between the United States and the Global South. This includes a range of work with CAAAV, Palestine Education Project, and Afghan Women’s Mission. She believes in the power of intersectional and international visions and strategies — which resonate across Dalit rights and Black lives, migrant justice and gender justice, to build bottom-up change from the local to the global.