Deepa Iyer is the former director of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) and serves on the Board of Directors of Race Forward. She has worked at the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and several Asian American nonprofit organizations throughout her career. Deepa is working on a book about the changing American racial landscape and is this year’s Activist-in-Residence at the University of Maryland’s Asian American Studies Program. Deepa writes at www.deepaiyer.me and can be found on Twitter @dviyer.