Sakshi is a law finalist, whose commitment to upholding human rights in both a practical and academic context is consistently visible. Sakshi first co-founded Cambridge Freedom from Torture, a refugee-aid group, where she formed part of the first student volunteering convoy to Calais, France. The society raised over £4,000 in its inaugural year. Sakshi has also aided fundraising efforts as Treasurer of Cambridge Amnesty International, which has raised over £3,500 over the course of two terms for global human rights crises.
Sakshi is also leading a policy paper examining disparities in UK asylum policy between refugee groups of differing nationalities, in conjunction with the Wilberforce Society, the world’s oldest student-led policy institute. The paper concluded that asylum rhetoric and policy maintain a mutually reinforcing link, creating disparities between refugee groups (publication in Summer 2024). Sakshi also co-authored a book chapter in Kilby and Luesley’s ‘Obstetrics and Gynaecology: An evidence-based text for MRCOG’, a
medico-legal textbook, advocating for a gendered approach to healthcare, thereby reducing healthcare litigation and alleviating existing healthcare disparities on the basis of gender and race (publication 2025).
Sakshi is also the Founding Co-Editor in Chief of the Clare College Law Journal where she led the creation of a legal journal, established and led an editorial board of 8 students, and interviewed Supreme Court Justices on prevalent legal issues such as human rights and international law enforcement, as well as co-establishing an access prize with Matrix Chambers, the UK’s leading human rights chambers. Sakshi is also the Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and on the Managing Board, of the Cambridge Human Rights Law Journal, and is a legal researcher for a social consulting firm, completing commissioned research for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
