Sara Kohgadai, a first-generation Afghan-American, is an immigration attorney and Project Coordinator with Project ANAR (the Afghan Network for Advocacy and Resources), an Afghan community immigration justice organization formed and led by Afghan-American women. Before joining Project Anar in 2023, she had already been actively involved in the immigration field for many years, first volunteering with nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area, then establishing a solo practice, then, in response to the arrival of Afghan parolees in 2021, partnering with the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant to prepare affirmative asylum petitions for newly arrived Afghans.