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Narayana Rao Rampilla (Rao Rampilla) is an international legal scholar, activist, and a professional actor. As a prominent leader of the SC/ST (Dalit) Action Committee at Jawaharlal Nehru University (1982ñ1983), he spearheaded a historic national civil rights movement against caste discrimination. Modeling his campus resistance strategy on France’s May 1968 Sorbonne student revolution, he underwent an indefinite hunger strike that lasted for 10-days, enduring institutional rustication to ultimately secure wide-ranging reforms for millions of marginalized Dalits. Globally, Mr. Rampilla has served as a UN Legal Officer, UNDP Policy Advisor and a Special Counsel (Diplomatic) for Indonesian Mission to the UN. His extensive international advocacy includes successful litigation opposing the establishment of Casino on the Reservation of the Seneca Nation of Indians and presenting landmark legal research alongside global human rights icons Ramsey Clark and Albie Sachs. A member of Washington ,DC and Georgia State Bars. He has been an actor, a Juilliard Alumnus having studied with Late Alan Arkin. Worked with Adam Sandler in THAT'S MY BOY among others. Started with VISA Super Bowl commercial with Kevin Bacon.
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