
Aarya Chowdhry
Aarya Chowdhry
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Aarya is passionate about working towards women’s rights, educational inequality and LGBTQ+ rights. She also keeps a growing interest in working towards immigration laws and the growing refugee crisis around us. She enjoys writing poetry and reading anything that catches her eye in her free time. She’s also a fan of murder mysteries and investigative documentaries/tv shows.
Published Policy Briefs
Equal Justice for All? An Impartial Look at Gender Disparities within the Criminal Justice System
This brief aims to analyze gender disparities in the criminal justice system and propose legislation to enforce equality. We find that sexism in criminal justice is an expansive issue affecting all gender identities and that policy solutions should target reproductive health, mental health, and intersectional disparities between LGBTQ+ and BIPOC individuals.
Race and Justice: Analyzing Racial Disparities in the Criminal Justice System
The criminal justice system aims to administer the law, ensure public safety, and provide justice to the offenders and the offended. The Constitution’s Bill of Rights guarantees access to due process and equal protection, which includes the right to be trialed fairly and impartially, negating the racial, sexual, socioeconomic, or ethnic identity of an individual or group. However, certain laws have made it nearly impossible to achieve true due process in its entirety, such as the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws of 1865, and the Sentencing Project amongst a few that seek to unjustly criminalize people of color. Apart from legal ordinance, racial stereotypes, personal biases amongst the law upholders, and institutional discrimination play a huge role that affect incrimination and sentencing procedures. This brief highlights the implications of the former and various other contributing factors on various stakeholders and how to improve it for the better good of all the citizens and institutional processes.
Breaking the Cycle: A Comprehensive Approach to Reducing Recidivism through Holistic Rehabilitation
Our policy brief delves deep into the urgent need for holistic prisoner rehabilitation in the United States justice system, discussing the educational, resource-based, and psychological models that can strengthen prisoner reintegration into society.
Fellowship Projects
Hindu Nationalism and Policies Pertaining to the LGBTQ+ in India
My Research Paper addresses the growing effect of Hindu Nationalism on the treatment of the LGBTQ+ in India, more urgently the Transgender community, and the policies towards them. It provides background for biases and the establishment for Hindu Nationalism and solutions for the same.
Published Opinion Articles
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