Asha Misra (she/they) is a first-generation Indian American raised on the East Coast and in the Midwest, currently living in Chicago, IL with their partner and rescue pup.

Asha is committed to collective liberation and working in ways that authentically and sustainably center and build power with QTBIPOC communities to vision, co-create, and resource transformative, community-led movements. Asha’s guiding values are accountability, authenticity, compassion, and curiosity.

Asha is a facilitative leader with over 15 years of experience developing high-functioning relationships, systems, and processes, rooted in values and care, to build trust, foster collaboration and rigor, and support thriving teams and partnerships. They have held program and project management, development, and operations roles across nonprofits and philanthropy, focusing on gender equity, reproductive justice, early childhood education, access to affordable housing, and environmental conservation. She has also held roles in higher education administration. Asha holds a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management and Leadership from DePaul University and bachelor’s degrees in International Studies and Spanish Language and Literature from the University of Wisconsin.

Asha currently serves on the board of Indigenous Women Rising, an Indigenous, queer-led abortion fund and reproductive justice organization. They volunteer with Chicago Books to Women in Prison and engage in community organizing, mutual aid, and abolition work in Chicago through Asian Americans Advancing Justice.

Asha finds tremendous joy in eating and building community through food, spending as much time as possible in or near water, practicing archery, exploring botanical gardens, visiting the library, and spending time with her siblings.