Puja Kapai is a multi-award winning researcher, academic and community justice advocate. She is also a 3-time TEDx-speaker. Her expertise lies in international human rights law, minority rights, and intersectional legal studies, focusing on the rights of marginalised communities. She has researched and published widely on the rights of communities marginalised on grounds of gender, race, religion, sexuality, and citizenship specifically in the areas of education, poverty, democratic participation, language rights, hate speech and gender- and race-based violence and discrimination. Puja’s work has influenced policy development and advocacy across legal and service sectors in Hong Kong especially in respect of racial equality and violence against women. Her comprehensive reports on the Status of Ethnic Minorities in Hong Kong 1997-2014 and the intersectional challenges experienced by ethnic minority victims of domestic violence broke new ground in putting these issues on the map in HK. Her work led to the establishment of the Steering Committee on Ethnic Minorities and a Subcommittee in the Hong Kong Legislative Council to comprehensively examine policies and provisions on equal access to protection of all women against violence. In 2019, she published Doing Equality Consciously, the first study on unconscious bias in Asia. Her work and recommendations have been presented to the HK Legislative Council, the Poverty Commission and the UN CERD Committee, leading to shifts in policy implementation. Puja is a frequent Keynote Speaker and was recently invited to speak on minority girls in education at the UN Forum on Minority Issues in 2019, on hate speech at the UN Asia Pacific Regional Forum on Minority Issues in 2020 and at the Asia-Pacific Regional Forum on Minority Issues the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the UN Declaration on Minority Rights. Puja's contributions in academia and to society have been widely recognised through HKU Faculty of Law’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 2016, HKU’s Knowledge Exchange Award 2017 and the American Chamber of Commerce’s Professional Woman of the Year Award 2019. Internationally recognised for her work, she was awarded the International Women of Courage Award in 2015 and the 2021 Global Pluralism Award by the Global Centre for Pluralism in Canada.