S. Aanjali Allegakoen

S. Aanjali Allegakoen is an American Studies and Human Rights double major in her Senior year at UConn. She is passionate about Ethnic Studies and Queer Studies and expanding both fields to be more holistic in their approach to representing racialized and colonized peoples. Aanjali is currently launching her IDEA Grant funded project, Ninaivu: Memory Archive this April in an effort to catalogue the plurality of the (Eelam/Ilankai/SL) Tamil experience in North America. As a queer Ilankai Tamil woman, Aanjali knows the importance of seeing one’s identity represented in academic spaces and is hoping that the panel she is moderating this Symposium “Decolonizing LGBTQ+ Identities: the Ilankai/Eelam/Sri Lankan Tamil Experience” will allow people in her community to feel this way. Aanjali will be attending the College of William and Mary’s American Studies MA/PhD program this Fall.