Sundal Ali is the Executive Director of South Asian SOAR. She is a convener, facilitator, and has a deep love of service. 

Sundal’s path into the gender-based violence field began in college as a prevention education fellow at a DC-based anti-trafficking agency. That experience ignited a lifelong passion that took her to East Africa and South Asia, where she led reproductive health projects and conducted community-based research with survivors of trafficking and exploitation. Returning home to Dallas, she worked as a prevention educator at a local rape crisis center, where she saw firsthand the deep value of engaging young people in the gender justice movement. From there, she built and led a program serving youth impacted by sex trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation, work that deepened her understanding of the intersectional systems that shape a survivor's journey to healing.

The desire for root-cause, systems level change led Sundal to race equity work within a large urban school district, where she built capacity for equitable leadership and practices to better serve marginalized communities. Along the way, she found her people, co-conspirators in Central Texas's social justice movement who sharpened her anti-racist, inclusive leadership philosophy.

Leading SOAR is the culmination of Sundal's heart's work - serving survivors, building and scaling programs, and centering equitable practices to serve diverse communities. She remains steadfast in elevating the voices of survivors and the direct service providers who show up for them every day.

Sundal holds a Bachelor’s degree in Public Health from The George Washington University. Outside of work, Sundal is an avid hiker, traveler, novice painter, and proud dog mom. She loves connecting with people passionate about SOAR's mission - drop her a line at sundal@southasiansoar.org or say hello if you are in the Austin area!