Board of Directors

Hanok George is Counsel at Eliassen Group. He obtained a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, in Political Science and English from Siena College and his juris doctor, cum laude, from Albany Law School of Union University.

Avinash is a corporate associate with Sullivan & Worcester LLP where he represents public and private companies, including real estate investment trusts, and financial institutions in mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt financings, corporate finance and joint ventures. He received his law degree from American University Washington College of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Rakhi Lahiri is a state attorney at the Massachusetts Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation. She conducts enforcement hearings regarding home improvement contractors’ registrations. She has previously practiced in both civil and criminal litigation. Rakhi received her undergraduate degree at Tufts University and her law degree at Northeastern University School of Law.

Anuj Khetarpal is a judicial law clerk at the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Prior to that Anuj worked as a judicial law clerk at the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, a public defender at the Committee for Public Counsel Services, and a prosecutor at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office. Anuj is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boston University School of Law.

Sahar Basaria is an Associate at Barton Gilman where she focuses her practice on products liability defense. She graduated from the University of Florida with a Bachelors of Arts in Criminology and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology. She graduated from Boston College Law School and holds a Mediation Certificate from BC Law.

Mathew Eapen is a corporate associate in the Boston office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia and master’s degrees in public policy and bioethics from Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, respectively. He received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

Deepa Desai is an associate at Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP. She represents employers in a variety of labor and employment matters. Deepa is a graduate of Boston University (cum laude), where she studied Political Science and History, and Northeastern University School of Law, where she concentrated in Labor, Work, and Income and Business and Commercial Law.

Aditya is a dual-qualified corporate attorney at the Boston office of Mintz. He was a physics undergrad at St. Stephen’s College before getting a law degree from Delhi University’s Faculty of Law. After a few years working for Dua Associates and AZB & Partners in India, the call of a second stint in law school proved too strong and he went back for a JD at the University of Minnesota, picking up an LLM in international tax from Uppsala University in Sweden along the way. His favorite sweater-vest makes him look a bit like Raj from The Big Bang Theory.