Illinois SR 767: MEMORIAL-AMISHA PATEL

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SR0767LRB104 21701 LAW 37294 r

1SENATE RESOLUTION

2 WHEREAS, The members of the Illinois Senate are saddened 

3to learn of the death of longtime Chicago community organizer 

4Amisha Patel, who passed away on April 24, 2026; and

5 WHEREAS, Amisha Patel, the daughter of Kusum Patel and 

6Arvind Patel, was born in Chicago on May 30, 1975; she earned 

7her Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Stanford University 

8in 1997, where she co-founded Youth United for Community 

9Action, an organization of young people of color who fought 

10for environmental and social justice in East Palo Alto, 

11California; she married Neena Hemmady at the Chicago Teachers 

12Union Jackie Vaughn Hall in August 2019; and

13 WHEREAS, Amisha Patel began her lifelong work as an 

14organizer through supporting young people in the late 1990s by 

15creating an award-winning documentary directed by the ACVPC 

16Video Team titled Young Azns Rising! Breaking Down Violence 

17Against Women, which was screened at film festivals across the 

18United States and won the Best Documentary category at 

19aMedia's annual Ammy Awards in 2000; her subsequent work as an 

20organizer included projects aimed at combating violence 

21against women and transforming Chicago for working people; and

22 WHEREAS, Amisha Patel's professional accomplishments 

SR0767- 2 -LRB104 21701 LAW 37294 r

1included serving as a community coordinator for SEIU Local 73 

2in Chicago for six years, where she organized hospital 

3employees and Head Start workers into forming a union, and 

4supporting other community organizers in their fight to stop 

5school closures; in 2007, she became executive director for 

6Grassroots Collaborative, a community-labor coalition that 

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