Dr. Khyati Y. Joshi is a public intellectual whose social science research and community connections inform policy-makers, educators, and everyday people on issues of race, religion, and immigration, and social justice in 21st century America. She is the author and editor of multiple books, as well as articles in the peer-reviewed and popular press. Some of her publications include   Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice, 3rd edition (Routledge, 2016)  and New Roots in America’s Sacred Ground: Religion, Race, and Ethnicity in Indian America (Rutgers University Press, 2006), Asian Americans in Dixie: Race and Migration in the South (University of Illinois Press, 2013); Understanding Religious Oppression and Christian Privilege (Sense Publishers, 2008).  In addition to numerous presentations to U.S. academic conferences, Dr. Joshi has been invited to present her research on Hindu communities at the White House; to advise policy-makers at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna, Austria, on the racialization of religion as it relates to the development of policies to prevent and combat hate crimes; and to address academic faculty and popular audiences in India on the experiences of the Indian Diaspora. She was a consultant for the Pew Research Forum’s groundbreaking survey on Asian Americans and Religion. She is currently finishing a book project on race and religion in America to be published by NYU Press. She is a Professor of Education at Fairleigh Dickinson University.