Nishi Kumar

Nishi Kumar is head of medical legal projects at the Medical Justice Alliance, a non-profit organization of volunteer medical professionals that protects the right to medical care for every person incarcerated.

She is an experienced civil rights attorney and was most recently the Director of Civil Litigation at the Promise of Justice Initiative in New Orleans, La. There, she advocated on behalf of and alongside currently and formerly incarcerated people throughout Louisiana, specifically at the intersection of mass incarceration and healthcare.

She is an adjunct professor at Loyola Law School, where she co-teaches an incarceration seminar. She graduated from NYU Law School, where she was a Hays Civil Liberty fellow, a Notes Editor on the NYU Law Review, and co-chair of the South Asian Law Students Association. After law school, she clerked for Judge Paul Watford on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Jesse Furman on the Southern District of New York.