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Krish O’Mara Vignarajah Source:wikipedia Krishanti O’Mara Vignarajah (born 1979) is a Marshall Scholar and an immigration advocate serving as President and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.Previously, Vignarajah served as Policy Director to former First Lady Michelle Obama. The second child of Elyathamby and Sothy Vignarajah,Krishanti Vignarajah has been called a prominent Maryland resident,and one of Maryland’s “Top 100 Women” and “Top 50 Influential Marylanders” by The Daily Record. She and her brother Thiru Vignarajah arrived in the United States as young children when their parents fled civil war in Sri Lanka. At Yale College she earned a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, graduating magna cum laude and with Phi Beta Kappa honors; she also earned a Master’s degree there in Political Science. She was a 2002 Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, where she received an M.Phil. in International Relations. She returned to Yale Law School, where she served on the Yale Law Journal. Vignarajah is married to Collin O’Mara, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation. Their ...