Nayantara Mehta

Counsel - West Coast Office

Nayantara Mehta ( B.A., College of William and Mary in Virginia; M.A., University of Chicago; J.D., University of California, Berkeley School of Law) is Counsel for the Nonprofit Advocacy Project in Oakland, California, and is responsible for researching, writing, and leading workshops on the advocacy rules for public charities. During law school, Nayantara worked with many public interest organizations, including the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, Public Advocates, the ACLU of Northern California, and the East Bay Community Law Center. She also served on the board of the Berkeley Law Foundation, an income-sharing student and alumni organization whose primary goal is to fund law students to do public interest work. Prior to law school, Nayantara pursued an interdisciplinary master's degree program at the University of Chicago, focusing on the role of women in religious and political movements in the Middle East and in immigrant communities in Europe. Nayantara graduated from the College of William and Mary in Virginia with a degree in Religion and a minor in Anthropology.