Sujaya Rajguru
Sujaya Rajguru graduated magna cum laude from the University of Florida in 2019 as the History Department’s Lead Major. At UF, she learned about how racial and gender disparities systematically disadvantage groups with effects that persist today. This education took place during her classes, study abroad research at the University of Cambridge on racial ideologies in the Caribbean, internship at the Matheson History Museum where she researched the controversial song “Dixie”, and honor’s thesis on the unintended consequences of desegregation in Gainesville. Sujaya also served as Piccolo Section Leader in the Gator Marching Band.
Informed by her history education, Sujaya chose to pursue a career as a civil rights attorney. She studied at the University of Virginia School of Law where she served as President of Virginia Law Women, interned for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the US Department of Justice, and wrote an article advocating for transitional justice in the United States to address its history of racial discrimination. After receiving her J.D., she clerked for Chief Justice Matthew J. Fader on the Supreme Court of Maryland. These experiences led her to her current position as Staff Attorney at the Women’s Law Project in Philadelphia.