Vidhi Bamzai

Vidhi joined the Center in 2023, where she engages in federal administrative advocacy related to reproductive rights. Her portfolio of work includes medication abortion, data privacy, denial of care issues, and Chevron deference. 

Prior to joining the Center, Vidhi was a litigator at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Jackson, Mississippi, where she represented adult and youth immigrants across the South. She also represented children and adults incarcerated in Mississippi correctional facilities on conditions of confinement issues. Prior to law school, Vidhi was a Kindergarten and Fourth Grade teacher via Teach for America in Detroit, Michigan. That experience led her to pursue a career in civil rights work and continues to be one of the most influential experiences of her professional career. 

Vidhi graduated from the Boston University School of Law in 2018 where she was a Public Interest Scholar and President of the Women’s Law Association. She was also a member of the Criminal Defenders Clinic where she represented people charged with misdemeanors in the Boston Municipal Court. She was also the Administrative Editor for the Public Interest Law Journal. Vidhi also holds a B.A. in Public Policy, with a focus on Women’s Global Health, from the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan. 

Originally from Michigan, Vidhi resides in Jackson, Mississippi, about two miles from the site of the former Jackson Women’s Health Clinic, which was the clinic at the center of the Dobbs case.