Tanuja Jain Gupta is a Tom Henderson Civil Rights Fellow at Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight.

Tanuja earned her law degree from Cardozo School of Law and her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude from New York University. During law school, Tanuja was both a Dean’s Merit Scholar and Public Service Scholar. As a member of the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic during her second year, she successfully secured CAT (Convention Against Torture) relief for Haitian survivor of gender-based violence. In her final year, Tanuja received both the Dr. Samuel Belkin Award and Employment Law Course Prize. 

Before joining Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, Tanuja worked in the tech industry for over twenty years as an engineering program manager, with the last eleven of those years at Google. During this time, she advocated for workers’ rights in the form of leading a global walkout against sexual harassment in 2018 and successfully lobbying for Google to end its policy of forced arbitration in March 2019. Tanuja was a key advocate for HR 4445, which became law in March of 2022, bringing together survivors of sexual harassment around the country to end forced arbitration at the federal level. For this work, she received the 2019 American Association for Justice Steven J. Sharp Public Service Award. While managing a large team at Google and working on some of its highest profile engineering and regulatory initiatives, Tanuja built a diversity, equity and inclusion program which ultimately blew the whistle on caste discrimination within the company. For her continued work in these fields, and the New York Cyber Abuse Task Force as a champion for victims of sexual violence, she received the 2026 Day One Voice of Courage Award.

Tanuja’s experiences working in the tech sector, and being a plaintiff herself, deeply influenced her decision to make a second career in law.