Amita Vempati serves as AFI’s Development Manager. Prior to joining AFI, Amita worked at the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative, the East European Folklife Center, Brooklyn Raga Massive, the Inner Asian and Uralic National Resource Center, and American Councils for International Education. She has led data gathering efforts for monitoring and evaluation initiatives on multilateral legal reform in the Balkans, labor protections in Uzbekistan’s cotton industry, and cultural exchange in youth education programs in Tajikistan. Amita completed her B.A. in Government, History, and Russian Studies at the University of Texas and her M.A. in Central Eurasian Studies (focusing on digital censorship and nation-building in post-Soviet Central Asia) at Indiana University.
