Roshan Natarajan joined ACLU-TN as a policy strategist in 2024 to support the organization's policy advocacy efforts across Tennessee. He grew up in Memphis and moved to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University, where he studied political science and chemistry. On campus, Roshan served as the president of Vanderbilt’s Alternative Spring Break program and as a teaching assistant in the French and German departments.
After graduating from Vanderbilt in 2021, Roshan moved to the west coast to attend Stanford Law School, where his studies focused on constitutional law, international law, and human rights law. Outside of the classroom, Roshan helped lead the Stanford International Refugees Project and spent plenty of time surfing at the many beaches in the Bay Area.
His favorite part of law school was spending a quarter working in the Stanford International Human Rights and Conflict Resolution Clinic. His clinic work involved writing an amicus brief in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on a case concerning homophobic and transphobic mob violence in Jamaica. Because of his experiences in clinic, Roshan chose to pursue a career in civil rights policy with the ACLU.