Anuradha Bhagwati
Service Women’s Action Network’s First Executive Director
Anuradha Bhagwati is the Service Women’s Action Network’s (SWAN) first Executive Director. A former Captain and Company Commander, Anu served as a Marine officer from 1999-2004. Under Anu’s leadership, SWAN has spearheaded legislative reform and litigation to end military rape, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and domestic violence, and to eliminate all barriers to equal opportunity for service women.
Anu has testified before Congress, advised the White House and the United Nations, and has spoken to countless audiences on challenges faced by military women, including the Combat Exclusion policy, Military Sexual Trauma, the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, and the VA health care and benefits system. A regular contributor to the media, Anu has been featured on Piers Morgan Tonight, the CNN Situation Room, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, NPR, the BBC, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Newsweek. Anu is the author of “UNBECOMING: A Memoir of Disobedience”, published in March 2019.
Bhagwati spoke as part of the panel Women in the Military: US Senator Jeanne Shaheen and others – March 15, 2013 alongside Molly O’Toole, Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and Brenda S. Fulton, moderated by MSNBC contributor Krystal Ball at The Common Good.
Twitter: @AnuBhagwati
