About: - Dr. Laxmi Berwa is one of the chief architects of VISION (Volunteers in the Service of India’s Oppressed and Neglected). In 1978, Dalit immigrants in New York and New Jersey came together to form the first anti-caste organization in the United States: VISION. A transnational activist organization with a specifically diasporic focus, VISION was created to advocate for India’s Dalits. This article analyzes the activism—protest, advocacy, and consciousness-raising—of VISION. Her activism was instrumental in increasing the global visibility and awareness of the problem of caste and to building a transnational network of support for India’s Dalits. Anti-caste activism also shaped the formation of identity and community abroad; it exposed significant caste-based fissures in the Indian diaspora and revealed alternative ways of being, imagining, and utilizing a diasporic identity from what is often assumed in studies of Indian Americans. This person is connected with Ambedkar International Center.