Vibha Kannan

Vibha Kannan is a 2024-2025 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project to support community-led organizing campaigns and aid immigrants in fighting the abusive practices of for-profit immigration bond companies through legislative advocacy and litigation under New York’s newly-enacted ban on electronic monitoring and unreasonable fees.

Vibha is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the New York University School of Law, where she interned at the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild and served as a student advocate in the NYU Immigrant Rights Clinic.

Fellowship type: Justice Catalyst

Organization: Surveillance Technology Oversight Project

Project name: Break the Shackles: Protections for Immigrants Facing Exploitation from For-Profit Bond Companies