Animesh Joshi

Animesh Joshi is a Legal Assistant in the New York Office of Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, a national law firm with offices in the District of Columbia, New York, California, and Tennessee. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University with a B.A. in history and computer science and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. At Columbia, Animesh’s academic work and senior thesis focused on the impact of devotional poetry and singing practices on forms of caste discrimination in early modern South Asia. He also worked at the Ambedkar Initiative, focusing on intellectual and concept histories of caste and “surplus” in a project that will be displayed at a Columbia symposium in the fall of 2024. While at Columbia, Animesh was president of the Columbia Debate Society, research assistant in the Middle East, South Asia, and African Studies department, and a lead editor on the Columbia Undergraduate Law Review. Animesh has previously held internships in the Robert P. Patterson, Jr. Mentoring Program at The Bronx Defenders and as a Summer Law Institute instructor at Legal Outreach. He also worked at an Iowa-based AAPI domestic violence organization during high school.