Aminta Kilawan is an attorney, community activist, and writer. Born in the Bronx, New York, to Guyanese parents, Aminta's passion for social justice manifests in various aspects of her life. In 2011, she co-founded Sadhana to merge her activist spirit with her love of Hinduism's progressive values. Aminta is also a spirited bhajan and Hindi film song singer. She serves on the board of her local temple, the Shri Trimurti Bhavan, in Ozone Park, Queens. Aminta is also the founder and executive director of South Queens Women's March, a gender justice movement-building organization with a mission to meet women, girls and gender expansive people where they are and connect them to the tools necessary to thrive. Aminta holds a BA from Fordham University and a JD from Fordham University School of Law. She currently serves as a Senior Legislative Attorney at the New York City Council. Aminta lives in Queens, close to Jamaica Bay, where she co-organizes Sadhana’s monthly Project Prithvi cleanups with Rohan Narine.

Tahil (he/they) is an interfaith activist based in Los Angeles, born to a Hindu father and a Sikh mother. Following the Oak Creek, WI, shooting of a Sikh temple in 2012, Tahil became involved in efforts for interfaith literacy and social justice and has been doing this work passionately for the past eight years. He currently works as the Faith Work Directory at the National LGBTQ Task Force. 

lives in the United States, and devotes herself to faith-based social justice work. She cofounded Hindus for Human Rights and Sadhana: Coalition of Progressive Hindus, and has spent more 15 years building inclusive and anti-caste Hindu community.

Gautham Reddy is a scholar, educator, and organizer based in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a doctorate in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and currently works as a research librarian at Emory University. He has been part of Sadhana since 2017 and helped develop progressive Hindu educational programming and resources. He is interested in exploring the creative and liberatory possibilities of diasporic Hinduism.

Shivani Parikh is a racial justice and civil rights advocate for South Asian American working and immigrant families. In 2023, she joined Sadhana’s congregation to the Parliament of World Religions; in 2024, she represented Sadhana at the Spiritual Alliance of Communities for Reproductive Dignity (SACReD) Gathering and completed the Interfaith Center of New York’s Civic Leadership Academy; and in 2025, she was selected for the Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies’ Faculty Seminar. She holds a BS from Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a JD from Fordham University School of Law. Currently, she leads Sadhana’s amicus brief work, brings a Hindu voice to Faith and Public Life’s Faith Speakers Bureau, and serves on the alumni advisory board for Fordham Law’s Institute on Religion, Law & Lawyer's Work. She lives in Queens, New York.

Pri is a senior public servant, anthropologist, and International Development specialist committed to environmental justice and building with frontline communities. Inspired by Sadhana’s mission of faith in action, she joined Sadhana to co-build Sadhana’s Hindu Liberation Theology working group. Pri’s Hindu practice is grounded in the Shakta tradition, her bhakti (devotion) for Bhoomi Devi (Mother Earth), karma yoga (faith through action), advaita principles as recognizing divinity in all beings across species, and shraddha (faith) in social transformation. Pri resides in dᶻidᶻəlal̕ič/Seattle with her partner and many plants. When she is not on land, she is in the water scuba diving. She participates in citizen science through underwater coastal clean-ups and kelp and fish monitoring and stewarding in the waters of the Coast Salish people.