Anand Subramanian

Anand Subramanian is a Managing Director at PolicyLink, leading efforts to advance Community Safety and Justice through campaigns and programs that shift the paradigm away from surveillance and punishment toward healing and community investment. Anand also oversees work to dismantle fines and fees through Cities & Counties for Fine and Fee Justice. He served as the executive director of the San Francisco Blue Ribbon Panel on Transparency, Accountability, and Fairness in Law Enforcement and as the co-facilitator of the Oakland Reimagining Public Safety Task Force. Prior to joining PolicyLink, Anand worked at the Insight Center for Community Economic Development, the Law School Consortium Project, and as an associate attorney at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, and Hampton after earning his JD from Northwestern University School of Law. He has served on the boards of South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), the Community Resource Hub for Safety and Accountability, Oakland Asian Cultural Center, and the Japanese Community Youth Council. He sings and plays guitar in the band Fair and Kind.