Adi Kumar, currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, is a trained architect and seasoned land and housing activist. His activism ranges from political and community organizing to development facilitation, housing policies, and post disaster and conflict reconstruction. Over the last twenty years, Kumar has been a vocal advocate for land justice and translating policy into implementation and vice versa.
Kumar has been in leadership positions in prominent civil society organizations and international organizations across the globe. His experiences have traversed managing a large charity-driven earthquake reconstruction project in India and spearheading post war reconstruction for a UN agency in Lebanon.