The South Asian Bar Association of New York (SABANY) held its 2019 Annual Leadership Awards Gala on October 1, 2019, when it honored four people including Professor Chaumtoli Huq with the Access to Justice Award.
To quote SABANY:
Professor Huq is the founder/Editor of an innovative law and media non-profit focused on law and social justice called Law@theMargins. Her expertise lies in labor and employment, and human rights. Professor Huq has devoted her professional career to public service focusing on issues impacting low-income New Yorkers. In 2014, she was appointed as the General Counsel for Litigation for the New York City Office of the Public Advocate, becoming then the highest-ranking Bangladeshi-American in New York City government, for which she received a New American Heroes award from the New American Leaders Project. Along with holding leadership roles at Legal Services of NYC and MFY Legal Services, she also served as Director of the first South Asian Workers’ Rights Project at the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the first staff attorney to the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and has served Community Board 7 for the Upper West Side.
The other honorees included Ravi Purohit, of the Blackstone Group, who received the Corporate Leadership Award; Anthony Sammi, from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, who received the Litigation Achievement Award; and Magistrate Judge Sanket Bulsara, of the Eastern District of New York, received the Legal Trailblazer Award.