Sudhanshu Kaushik

Sudhanshu Kaushik (born 13 April 1995, in Opelika, Alabama) is an Indian American youth rights activist, political commentator, journalist, and writer, best known for founding the think tanks the Young India Foundation in 2015 to advocate for youth participation in youth politics,  and the North American Association of Indian Students in 2020 to advocate for India–United States relations.

Kaushik has a Bachelor of Arts from New York University, a Master of Arts from Columbia University, a Master of Science from the University of Oxford, and is enrolled for a Master of Business Administration with the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago since 2022 as a civic scholar. He has previously worked with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations and as a journalist at CNN under Fareed Zakaria, and was listed in the inaugural 30 under 30 list of the International Literacy Association in 2015. He had a Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights with the NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, and is a fellow of the South Asian Journalists Association.

Born the son of politician Dinesh Kaushik, he frequented between Haryana and Alabama in his youth and has been vocal about the racism he faced growing up in the American state. In December 2023, he published his book The Future Is Ours: The Political Promise of India’s Youth through HarperCollins India.