Pinky is the managing director of communications and strategy at the Brennan Center for Justice. She leads Brennan Center’s online advocacy, social media, website, national email program, digital advertising, and online fundraising in addition to Communications team strategy. Prior to the Brennan Center, Pinky worked with HIAS, an international refugee resettlement agency, overseeing online engagement and expansion. She also spent almost seven years at the American Civil Liberties Union, overseeing email, SMS, online advocacy, social media, web production, multimedia, graphic design, brand marketing, paid media, and the online store. She helped direct the multi-fold growth of ACLU’s digital reach and online advocacy in the Trump era.
Pinky served as the Iowa Digital Director for the 2016 Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, and is also a multi-instrumentalist in a variety of indie rock bands, most recently touring internationally with The Magnetic Fields. In prior roles, she served as the General Manager at the School of Rock in New York City and ran software development teams at a technology company in San Francisco. She received a BS in Computer Science and Communication from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.