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Valarie Kaur

Valarie Kaur is a civil rights activist, lawyer, and founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. She has won national acclaim for her work on social justice issues. A daughter of Sikh farmers in California, she earned degrees from Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School, and Yale Law School, and an honorary doctorate from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She lives in a multigenerational home in Los Angeles with her husband and children.