Nitika Raj

Nitika Raj (she/they) is a queer South Asian immigrant, spiritual seeker, and lifelong learner. She founded Moksh Consulting in 2016 to shift collective consciousness towards greater peace, connection, equity and joy. Nitika is a mentor and Wisdom Council member for Coaching for Healing, Justice, and Liberation. She has served on the Nominations Network of the Emergent Fund since 2016 and has on 21/64’s inaugural Advisory Committee for building skills and space for advisors of color in the philanthropic space. She also serves on the inaugural Advisory Committee for Amalgamated Foundation’s new program for advisors of color in the wealth industry.

Her past work experiences include Resource Generation (as Racial Justice Director and National Organizer of young people of color with wealth), ChangeLab (a grassroots political lab focusing on U.S. racial justice politics and the role of Asian Americans), API Chaya (a pan Asian organization addressing domestic violence in Washington state), Kirkland Police Department Family Violence Unit, and the VOICE anti-violence project at Georgia Tech. Nitika is a former board member of the Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice (a global LGBTQ human rights foundation), and former board chair of Trikone Northwest (South Asian LGBTQ organization in Seattle). She was a co-founding member of the Queer and Trans People of Color Yoga Collective in Seattle.

Nitika's writings have been published in Tikkun Magazine (2013), Criptiques: an anthology of writing on disability (2014), Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice (2014), Queering Sexual Violence (2016), When Language Runs Dry (2020) and the WMN Zine: Issue #3 (2021). Nitika has edited and produced two zines for social justice organizations – 33 Cups of Chai (for Chaya in 2010), and To the Left and Write (for Western States Center in 2010). She has shared her poetry and creative nonfiction on several stages in Seattle and New York. In 2015 Nitika co-founded the performance project and Collective formerly known as Yoni ki Raat, now YKR, a theater production to raise awareness about issues of gender, sexuality, and violence in the South Asian community.

Nitika has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Minor in Sociology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington. Born in India and raised in Kuwait, she now lives on Lenape lands in Brooklyn, New York. In her free time Nitika loves to read science fiction & fantasy, enjoy music and dancing, and immerse in divinity and beloved community.

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