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Seema Mohan Agnani

Revson Fellow 2004 - 2005

Director of Training and Technical Assistance
Citizens for NYC

Seema Agnani currently serves as the coordinating consultant for the Fund for New Citizens at the New York Community Trust, a collaborative of 22 foundations and donors that support immigrants in New York City and the organizations working on their behalf. Previously, she held the position of Director of Training and Technical Assistance at Citizens for NYC, where she oversaw a program that provides capacity building grants, training, and technical assistance to 100 volunteer-driven organizations citywide. Before joining Citizens for NYC, she was Managing Director of Chhaya CDC, an organization that she co-founded to meet the community development needs of South Asians in New York City. Prior to that, she worked for six years at Asian Americans for Equality, first as a housing development associate helping the organization develop over 200 units of affordable housing, and later as Manager of Resource Development. Ms. Agnani is a founding board member of the South Asian Women's Creative Collective and serves on the board of the National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development. She is the recipient of both a Great Cities Chicago-London Urban Fellowship (1994) and a Union Square Award (2002). Born in the Chicago area, she holds a B.S. from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Masters of Urban Planning and Public Policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago. During her Revson year, she took courses in public affairs, history, and political sociology. (The Revson Fellow's biography that appears above was last updated in 2004.)

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