Dhruv Kumar was born in Ottawa, Canada, and grew up in a South Asian immigrant household in San Jose, California. His father’s heritage is rooted in Varanasi, India, while his mother’s family are former partition refugees from Peshawar, present-day Pakistan. He graduated from Cornell University in 2019 before working as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman in New York City, specializing in financial services.

Dhruv graduated from the New York University School of Law in 2023. A major part of his NYU Law career was working as a student advocate for the Family Defense Clinic, in partnership with Brooklyn Defender Services to represent indigent parents in family regulation proceedings. Apart from being a staunch advocate for criminal justice reform, Dhruv attributes his passion for South Asian causes in the United States to attending the Bay Area Solidarity Summer’s first training program while in high school.