Sejal Desai MBA’99 is the executive director of the Akanksha Education Fund, a nonprofit that runs 26 public-private partnership schools in India for children from low-income communities. She has been a passionate advocate and supporter of initiatives in the U.S. and India focused on education, hunger relief and women’s issues. Previously, Desai led CFT for Business, an initiative of the Communities Foundation of Texas, where she engaged over 400 North Texas companies to support the region through corporate and employee giving, strategic philanthropic consulting and volunteer engagement. In 2019, Desai received the Greater Dallas Asian American Chamber of Commerce’s Woman of the Year Award. She is a co-founder of the Orchid Giving Circle and the Be the Change South Asian Youth Giving Circle, which have raised significant funds to support the North Texas Asian community. Desai also serves on the boards of The Senior Source, talkSTEM, SMU’s Women of the Southwest and the North Texas Food Bank’s Indian American Council.