Aarti Kohli

Director of Immigration Policy Warren Institute, University of California, Berkeley Law

Aarti Kohli is Director of Immigration Policy at the Warren Institute. She has served as a Consultant to the Office of Children’s Issues for the U.S. Department of State, where she has drafted federal regulations on international adoption and prepared agency responses to industry comments for publication in the Federal Register.

ormerly, she was Judiciary Committee and Immigration and Claims Subcommittee counsel to Representative Howard Berman (D-CA). Prior to working for Congress, she served as Assistant Legislative Director at UNITE union in Washington, DC. In addition, she has also worked as a consultant to the National Immigration Law Center, the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children, and the National Immigration Forum. Aarti earned her J.D. from the University of California Hastings College of the Law and is a member of the California Bar.