Anjali Kumar is a Brooklyn born, first generation Indian American author, attorney, advisor, speaker, and "idea acupuncturist." Kumar recently co-founded The Justice Dept, a women-led firm focusing on legal counsel and business strategy development for female entrepreneurs, executives, talent, and brands in technology, consumer product, entertainment, and fashion. Prior to that, Kumar was the Founding Chief People Officer and Founding General Counsel at Cheddar, a news network start-up based in Manhattan, the Founding Head of Social Innovation and Founding General Counsel at Warby Parker and Senior Counsel at Google.

Kumar has taught for several years as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School and Fordham University. She has served as an advisor and board member to prominent technology companies, luxury fashion brands, consumer products, and non-profit organizations including Malala Fund, IDEO.org, Women's World Banking, and AmDoc. In November 2017, she spoke at TEDWomen. Her "beautiful inspiring, and funny" talk, "My Failed Mission To Find God - And What I Found Instead," based on her book Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search For Something To Believe In (Hachette 2018), has been watched by over 3 million people around the world.