Kaur has given speeches at the White House, The Pentagon, and the Parliament of the World's Religions. Kaur served as the Media and Justice Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society and Senior Fellow at Auburn Theological Seminary. She founded the Yale Visual Law Project to inspire and equip new generations of advocates. Her activism has also included education work to combat hate crimes against Muslim and Sikh Americans. Kaur's film making and activism have focused on gun violence prevention, racial profiling, immigration detention and prison practices, and Internet neutrality.

She is currently the founder and director of the Revolutionary Love Project, a non-profit that produces tools, curricula and mass mobilizations aimed at reclaiming love as a force for justice.

She is the founder of Groundswell Movement, considered 'America's largest multifaith online organizing network', recognized for 'dynamically strengthening faith-based organizing in the 21st century.' She is also co-founder of Faithful Internet which organizes people of faith to protect net neutrality. Since then, she has made films and led story-based campaigns on hate crimes, racial profiling, immigration detention, solitary confinement, marriage equality, and Internet freedom. When a family friend, Balbir Singh Sodhi, was the first person killed in a hate crime after September 11, 2001, Kaur began to document hate crimes against Sikh and Muslim Americans, which resulted in the award-winning documentary film Divided We Fall: Americans in the Aftermath. Kaur earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religious Studies and International Relations from Stanford University, a Master of Arts in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School, and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. She was born and raised in Clovis, California, where her family settled as Sikh farmers in 1913. Kaur's debut book, See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love, was published in June 2020.

She is the founder of the Revolutionary Love Project. Valarie Kaur (born February 14, 1981) is an American activist, documentary filmmaker, lawyer, educator, and faith leader.

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