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Chavi Khanna Koneru (born 1983) is a Hindu Punjabi journalist and lawyer who is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of North Carolina Asian Americans Together (NCAAT). She worked for the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division in 2008 before going on to the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. She was also a part of NaralNC before she co-founded and directed NCAAT in 2016. She has been honored by the Cary Magazine and awarded the Gold Futures Challenge Prize.

Early Life and Education
Koneru was born in 1983 in Oakland, California before moving to Durham, North Carolina when she was six years old. In 2006, she obtained her undergraduate degree in journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also earned a graduate degree in law in 2009 from the same university.

Career
In 2008, Koneru worked in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division while in her third year of law school. After graduation, she worked at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and the pro-choice organization NaralNC before co-founding North Carolina Asian Americans Together in 2016. In 2021, she was recognized as an Honoree of the Women of Western Wake by Cary Magazine. In 2022, Gold House awarded her the Gold Futures Challenge Prize.

Affiliations
Koneru is a 2023-24 council member for the North Carolina Council for Women. She is also an executive committee member of the Asian American Power Network.