Anjali Rimi
from Igniting Joy Hosted by Puneet
Finding a way to combat adversity and turning it into a potent force for positive change is what our next guest excels at. Join me in my conversation with Anjali Rimi. Anjali Rimi is the president of Parivar, Bay Area. Parivar Bay Area is America's only transgender-led, transgender-centering South Asian organization. She is also the star of a biographical film, “Belonging” telling her story! She was invited to the White House in 2023 to represent her community. During the pandemic years, Anjali led the global disaster relief program of Parivar Bay Area helping save over 90,000 transgender lives across the San Francisco Bay Area, Texas, India, Bangladesh and Guyana. Anjali has helped build the world’s largest transgender entrepreneurship program with over 26 small businesses owned and led by Transgender Hijrah people across India known as SITALparivar. Anjali serves on the boards of LGBT Asylum Project and San Francisco Pride & on the Transgender Advisory Committee with the Office of Transgender Initiatives, San Francisco Mayor’s office. Anjali has held almost 500 equity workshops and seminars to educate and build awareness for gender and racial equity at workplaces and faculties across Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit and community organizations, over the past decade.
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