Indivar
Dutta-Gupta

Fighting Poverty through Policy

29, Washington, District of Columbia

Indivar Dutta-Gupta works on the Committee on Ways and Means in the US Hosue of Representatives. He was previously a Consultant to the Task Force on Poverty at the Center for American Progress, and a research analyst with Freedman Consulting. As a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow (2005-2006), Indi worked on food stamp outreach and advocacy for DC Hunger Solutions and then on domestic poverty issues at the Center for American Progress. He interned in the office of U.S. Senator Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) and lived in Accra, Ghana, where he worked for the Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions. He graduated in 2005 with honors from the University of Chicago with an A.B. in Political Science and Law, Letters, and Society. Indi serves on Amnesty International USA’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights Advisory Group and was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship in 2004.