Nayna Hatangadi

Nayna Hatangadi (University of Texas School of Law, JD 2025) received her B.A. from McGill University in 2019. She interned in the summer of 2023 for The Southern District of Texas under Judge Alfred H. Bennett, as well as Save Our Springs, an environmental non-profit, in Austin, Texas. Before law school, she volunteered with the United Nations, where she researched and analyzed countries’ progress on the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly Ghana’s progress towards achieving an end to Gender Based Violence.  As an undergraduate, Nayna interned with Global Mind-ED where she studied and outcomes and educational opportunities for first-generation-to-college students, with a particular focus on mothers entering higher education. While at McGill University, she wrote her senior thesis on the impact of Western Feminism as a form of Neo-Colonial Control and Predatory Compassion in India. In law school, Nayna has participated in several pro bono projects, including the Texas Journal of Civil Liberties & Civil Rights, and as Vice President of Administration of If/When/How.