Valarie Kaur

Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, activist, entrepreneur and mother who fights for social justice rooted in love.

Valarie Kaur is an award-winning filmmaker, civil rights lawyer, activist, entrepreneur and mother who fights for social justice rooted in love. Inspired by her Sikh faith, Valarie is the founder of Groundswell Movement, America's largest multi-faith online organizing community. She is a regular voice on MSNBC, CNN, the Washington Post, among others and speaks throughout the US. Raised in a farming family in the California heartland, Kaur graduated from Stanford University, Harvard Divinity School and Yale Law School. Now based at the University of Southern California, her new venture the Revolutionary Love® Project, harnesses the ethic of love to drive courageous action in our lives and in the world.


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His brother was murdered for wearing a turban after 9/11. 15 years later, he spoke to the killer.

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What does it sound like to forgive someone who murdered your brother? Hear Rana Sodhi’s full conversation with Frank Roque, who committed the first known hate-driven murder after 9/11.

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In an era of ‘enormous rage,’ I’m still finding love in America

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