Priyanka Mara is a senior at The University of Texas at Austin majoring in government and humanities, an interdisciplinary major that allows her to study her academic interest: understanding the ways that laws and policy have been used to institutionalize discrimination in our legal system. On campus, she is part of Texas Orange Jackets and has founded a number of diversity-building organizations. Off campus, she has previously worked with numerous organizations including Annie's List, the Texas Juvenile Justice Department, the Office of State Representative Celia Israel, and EMILY's List. After graduation this spring, she hopes to work in a research capacity on the 2020 election before earning a law degree and practicing appellate litigation.