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South Asian Bar Association of Washington ("SABAW") is a 501(c)(3) organization of South Asian legal professionals in Washington State dedicated to providing access to legal resources and support for issues relevant to the South Asian community. SABAW is also committed to identifying and advancing the areas where economic, social and political interests intersect with South Asian legal issues, and we work to provide opportunities for law students in Washington to get involved in these areas alongside us. SABAW serves as a liaison between South Asian legal professionals and the legal community at large. We strive to provide our members with education, opportunities to expand their personal networks and resources, and a platform for community outreach and involvement. We are an active branch of the North American South Asian Bar Association. With help from our membership, SABAW has continually expanded our community outreach and enhanced opportunities for law students and young lawyers through legal clinics, scholarships and fellowships.
Indian American Community Services (IACS) formerly known as India Association of Western Washington (IAWW), is the longest-serving Indian community based organization in the Pacific Northwest. Secular and volunteer-driven, the IACS works to connect and empower the Asian-Indian community through programs, services, and advocacy for people of all ages and all life stages. As a result, the IACS is able to involve its full community in ways that incorporate and respect cultural traditions and values.
We are committed to supporting the local Indian community with critical programs and services, especially for those most at-risk members of our community. We seek to work together to increase the well-being of the community by addressing individual needs ranging from healthcare, financial assistance, family assistance, mental health and counseling.
For over three decades, we have continuously improved opportunities to supply our knowledge and resources in order to strengthen the community.
IACS serves the Indian American community through programs, services for all life stages, while fostering an environment of inclusion and diversity.
We hope to achieve these goals through a constant fostering of inclusion and diversity, a sharing of knowledge and resources, and active civic engagement, in order to more directly address the existing and non-existing policies affecting the needs of the community today.
Hemu is one of this country's foremost leaders in privacy, security, and safety issues clients face across multiple business sectors, including big tech, government, law enforcement, corporations, start-ups, talent, and pro athletes. A globally recognized leader with nearly 25 years of cyber experience, he helps clients build up privacy, safety, and security programs and navigate through crises that might arise as the result of privacy and security breaches. He has developed an extensive network in the state attorney general community and respect as a thought leader on cyber policy matters. Hemu was previously the founder and chief executive officer of cyber security and cyber intelligence firm Cyber Security Affairs, formerly known as SSP Blue.
Pradnya Desh, our founder and CEO, is an attorney and former US diplomat. She represented the United States at the WTO and the UN Committee on Trade and Development in Geneva, Switzerland. Then she led an award-winning law firm in Seattle/Bellevue. It was there that she observed that the legal process is broken—expensive, complex, and slow—negatively impacting companies and most importantly, the people in them. She set out to make the process better, and Advocat was born.
Her goal is not to replace attorneys with AI, but to create a world in which AI to handles the rote, repetitive, time-consuming parts of law, while attorneys handle advice, decision-making, strategy, and relationships. She wants to replace the pain of legal processes with joy and connectedness.
