Prior to this role, she was a Staff Attorney at the Sikh Coalition, where she provided direct legal services to the Sikh community in California, and contributed to the organization's nationwide impact litigation and advocacy efforts related to combating hate, profiling, employment discrimination and religious rights abuses. Pawanpreet earned her Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), and her Bachelor of Arts in Government from Harvard University.