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Sapreet Kaur to head Sikh
Coalition
WSN Network
NEW YORK:
Sapreet Kaur has been named as the new Executive Director of the
Sikh Coalition. She was most recently the managing director of human
assets strategy for Teach for
America
(www.teachforamerica.org), a national non-profit which focuses on
eliminating educational inequity.
Sapreet Kaur
served on the Sikh Coalition's Board of Trustees for the last one
and a half years and will now lead the organization in a staff role.
She will continue the work shepherded by Amardeep Singh, co-founder
and outgoing Executive Director of the Coalition. Mr. Singh will be
assuming the role of Director of Programs and Advocacy.
"We are thrilled
to have a senior executive like Ms. Kaur on the Coalition's staff
team," said Amardeep Singh. "I look forward to partnering with her
to take the Sikh Coalition to a higher level of impact and growth."
Over the past
three years, the Coalition has grown over 500% in its budget and
staff.
Ms. Kaur plans
to advance the Sikh Coalition's legal, advocacy, community
organizing, and public education programs to focus on further
serving the community, while creating a deeper grassroots presence.
"Only after we
successfully educate our neighbors, will we be able to stem the tide
of employment discrimination, school bullying, and the myriad of
other bias incidents our community suffers everyday," said Ms. Kaur.
"At the same time, we will bring the full force of all our program
areas, partner organizations and volunteers across the country to
defend the rights of Sikhs to fearlessly practice our faith."
Born and raised
in central New Jersey, Ms. Kaur attended Camp Chardi Kala in New
York as
well as the
Khalsa
School at Bridgewater Gurdwara while growing up and has been active
in different Panthic community activities for the last two decades.
A graduate of the Stern School of Business at New York University
with a dual degree in marketing and international business, she has
a passion for working with the Sikh community.
Prior to joining
Teach for America, she held management positions at Coach Inc. and
Williams-Sonoma Inc. She also served in the United States Peace
Corps in Kenya and Uganda. Ms. Kaur also serves as a board member of
the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
(wagggsworld.org), a 10 million member worldwide movement across 135
countries providing non-formal education where girls and young women
develop leadership and life skills.
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September 2009
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