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Anjali Kumar

Co-Founder of the Justice Department & Idea Acupuncturist

Kumar, Anjali

Co-Founder of the Justice Department & Idea Acupuncturist
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    About Anjali Kumar

    Anjali recently co-founded The Justice Dept, a women-led firm focusing on legal counsel and business strategy development for female entrepreneurs, executives, talent, and brands in technology, consumer product, entertainment, and fashion. Prior to that, she was the Founding Chief People Officer and General Counsel at Cheddar, and the Founding Head of Social Innovation and Founding General Counsel at Warby Parker. Anjali was Founding General Counsel at Acumen and Senior Counsel at Google. While at Google, Anjali curated and hosted the @Google Speaker Series on campus in NYC bringing Googlers from around the globe face-to-face with today’s most prominent and innovative thought leaders including Anthony Bourdain, Questlove, and Jacques Pépin and hosted a YouTube interview series “Lunchtime at Google.”

    Anjali has taught for several years as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University. She has served as an advisor to prominent technology companies, luxury fashion brands, consumer products, and non-profit organizations including Malala Fund and IDEO.org.

    In November 2017 she spoke at TEDWomen. Her “beautiful inspiring, and funny” talk “My Failed Mission To Find God – And What I Found Instead”, based on her book Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In (Hachette 2018), has been watched by over 3 million people around the world and translated into over twenty languages.

    Anjali earned her BA in Biomedical Ethics from Brown University and a JD from Boston University School of Law. In 2016, she was appointed by Mayor Bill de Blasio to join the NYC Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board and GrowNYC. She currently serves on the board of directors of Happy Money, Women’s World Banking, GloScience Professional, Amplifier, Edible Schoolyard NYC, and American Documentary (AmDoc). Anjali also serves on the Guggenheim Museum’s Global Innovation Council.

    Anjali lives in New York City and upstate New York with her husband and daughter.

    The Anjali Kumar Experience

    Anjali’s talks often deal with questions about innovation and diversity. As an “idea acupuncturist” Anjali brings a spiritual approach to the business world. She doesn’t give black or white answers to businesses or problems, she looks at a set of issues and works on pressure points using different interventions to help keep the energy flowing into an idea or business. Anjali had been featured as a keynote speaker at TEDx, Seattle Interactive Conference, The Connecticut Forum, and Diane von Furstenberg’s International Women’s Day Speaker Series. She has participated in fireside chats with Danny Meyer (Union Square Hospitality Forum), Ezra Klein (Washington Post), and Neil Blumenthal (Co-CEO/Founder of Warby Parker). In November 2017 she spoke at TEDWomen. Her “beautiful inspiring, and funny” talk “My Failed Mission To Find God – And What I Found Instead”, based on her book Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In, has been watched by over 2.7 million people around the world and translated into 19 languages.

    Anjali’s talks also deal with redirecting the conversation around diversity and gender equality in the workplace by embracing ideas of non-absolutism. Anjali wants to stop framing diversity in the business from a moral obligation and start thinking about diversity as an untapped and proven means for businesses to increase creativity, jumpstart innovation, and produce higher revenues.

    For Women, by Women: Entrepreneurs on the Rise

    As the adage goes, “empowered women empower women.” From the purchasing power women have as consumers to the employment opportunities they offer as business owners, women are an undeniable economic force. Each of the female founders on this panel have created platforms to inspire, mentor and elevate the next generation of women entrepreneurs, socially and economically. How are women building businesses, leading workforces, and reinvesting income and profits as compared to men? How is gender-lens investing helping to drive capital to these female led ventures? How are female-led companies positively impacting the communities they operate within? What can we expect from the next generation of female entrepreneurs?

    My Failed Mission To Find God — And What I Found Instead

    Anjali Kumar went looking for God and ended up finding something else entirely. In an uplifting, funny talk about our shared humanity, she takes us on a spiritual pilgrimage to meet witches in New York, a shaman in Peru, an infamous “healer” in Brazil and others, sharing an important lesson: what binds us together is far stronger than what separates us, and our differences are not insurmountable.

    Anjali Kumar on Misogyny in Tech Culture

    Anjali Kumar discusses her experience at Google and misogyny in the tech world in general. She also offers advice to young women hoping to go into those fields. Kumar was a featured panelist with Danny Meyer and Ezra Klein at The Connecticut Forum’s panel on “Disruption: Change-makers in business, media and politics” on March 10, 2017, moderated by Jonathan Capehart.

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