Harshitha Ezhilarasan

Harshitha Ezhilarasan (she/her) is a student at Adlai E. Stevenson High School with a passion for civil rights law, public speaking, and community involvement. As a CRDJ fellow, she’s excited to explore how youth advocacy can shape policies that better reflect the needs of both the racial and disabled communities. At CRDJ she works alongside her mentor in writing a Crisis Response and Reproductive Equity Policy Brief. This summer and fall, she’ll be volunteering with the City of Chicago Law Department and starting a capstone project through the Supreme Court and My Hometown Program, led by the Supreme Court Historical Society in Washington, D.C. When not preparing for her FBLA competitions or debating in congressional debate, she enjoys (often unsuccessfully) training her parakeets.