Activism – Deepa Kumar

Gender and Race Equity

Selected Media Coverage

New York Times

October 15, 2021

CBC

October 15, 2020

Op-ed in NJ Star Ledger

November 30, 2020

Union Activism

Deepa Kumar was Secretary, Vice-President and then President of her union, the Rutgers AAUP-AFT, from 2013 to 2019. During this time, she worked to worked to make social justice and intersectional unionism central the vision of the union. Thus, in addition to bread and butter issues, Kumar took up important gender and race equity demands. Additionally, the union played an active role in defending immigrant students against Trump’s attack on DACA and also in protecting faculty and grads against the Muslim ban.

Selected Media Coverage

Jacobin

April 29, 2019

Politico

April 17, 2019

NJ Record

April 19, 2019