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Seema Singh is President of the Asian Indian Chamber of Commerce (AICC), a non-profit organization committed to providing a forum for the Asian Indian Business Community in the tri-state area. She is the founder of the Asian Women’s Safety Net (AWSN) a non-profit project under the Coalition for Battered Women. She chairs the “Rising Stars,” an initiative to provide campaign training for Asian women conducted in collaboration with Ready to Run, a program of Eagleton’s Center for American Women in Politics. Singh's public service endeavors include running in 2007 as the Democratic candidate for N.J. Senate in the 14th District (Mercer and Middlesex counties), Ratepayer Advocate/Public Advocate Designate under three New Jersey Governors and member of the New Jersey Governor’s Advisory Council on Volunteerism and Community Service. In addition, she served on the State of New Jersey’s Renewable Energy Task Force and the Clean Energy Council, International Education Task Force; the Executive Commission on Ethical Standards and chaired the Governor’s Asian Studies Commission to recommendations an Asian studies curriculum for the State of New Jersey. She is currently on the Board of the American Conference on Diversity (ACD), the Board of Visitors of New Jersey Institute of Technology (“NJIT) and the board at the Cathedral Healthcare System. She is a founder and past President of the Rotary International Club of Plainsboro, receiving the “Paul Harris Fellow” in recognition of her contributions to the Rotary Club, and the Hindu International Council Against Defamation. Singh's past legal experience was with the law firms Pepper Hamilton, Reed Smith, LLP and Fox, Rothschild, O’Brien & Frankel, LLP. She clerked for the Hon. Patrick J. McGann, Monmouth County Superior Court, and interned with the Hon. Dickinson R. Debevoise, Senior Judge of the U.S. District Court in Newark. Singh is a graduate of Seton Hall School of Law, Rutgers and Calcutta University in India.
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