Ms. Sainath has over a decade of experience working for human rights, labor and other social justice issues. Her focus at Hadsell Stormer is on international human rights, housing and employment law.
 
Prior to joining the firm in September 2008, Ms. Sainath served as an organizer with the Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees (now UNITE-HERE), where she empowered low-wage South Asian and Latino workers to assert their rights on the job. From 2002-2003, Ms. Sainath lived and worked in the West Bank, where she conducted advocacy against Israel's West Bank Wall with the International Solidarity Movement, a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land using nonviolent, direct-action methods.  

Radhika Sainath received her J.D. from the University of California Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) and her B.S. in political science and sociology from the University of California San Diego. During law school, Ms. Sainath worked at the ACLU National Legal Department, the ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project, the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund on issues relating to national security, war crimes, free speech, human rights and immigrants' rights. She also served on the board of the South Asian Law Students Association.

In January 2008, Ms. Sainath travelled to Pakistan on a National Lawyers Guild fact-finding mission to assess the status of the judiciary and the prospect for fair elections in light of Musharraf's attacks on judicial independence. She, along with the 7 other members of the delegation, co-authored "Defending Dictatorship: US Foreign Policy and Pakistan's Struggle for Democracy" a report criticizing U.S. foreign policy in Pakistan.

Ms. Sainath is also a contributor and co-editor of Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement (Verso 2004). She enjoys writing fiction, muay thai kickboxing and desserts.