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 Vivek
Maru hails from Danbury, Connecticut and ancestrally from Bidada
village in Kutch, Gujarat. He is a co-founder of the Umoja education
organization, and has worked on human rights and development issues
for grassroots organizations in Kutch, India, for the national Department
of Welfare in South Africa, and for a labor and human rights law firm
in San Francisco. He is currently a law clerk for a left judge on
the Ninth Circuit of Appeal, and will be joining Human Rights Watch
as a fellow in September. His work in spoken word and hip hop draws
on both the conscious strain of American hip hop and the Kutchi oral
poetic tradition. |
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