Pragna Patel is the co-founder and co-director of Project Resist, an organisation focused on the rights of black and minority women and girls in the UK. She is the former director and founding member of the Southall Black Sisters (SBS), an advocacy and campaigning centre where she worked from 1982 to Jan 2022 with a break in 1993 when she left to train and practice as a solicitor.  Over those 40 years, she led SBS on some of its most important cases and campaigns on a range of issues from violence against women, to immigration-related abuse and religious fundamentalism.  She was also a founding member of Women Against Fundamentalism and is currently a member of Feminist Dissent. She is the recipient of many awards including the Bob Hepple Award for contributions to equality in 2015, an honorary doctorate in law from Keele University in 2019, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Criminal Justice Alliance in 2023. Pragna has written extensively on race, gender and religion.