As Senior Portfolio Director, Vijay leads Humanity United's largest grantmaking portfolio that focuses on issues of worker agency, safer labor migration, and corporate accountability. The portfolio seeks to address power imbalances at the heart of worker exploitation. It seeks to tackle on the power imbalances between employers and workers, host and sending countries, and migrant workers, and throughout each transaction within global supply chains.

Before joining HU, Vijay was Program Officer with Winrock International, where he led work on labor rights, migration, and anti-human trafficking projects in Africa, South America, and Asia. This included helping workers organize and advocate for their rights in the agricultural and textile sector as well as both partnering with and challenging corporate behavior as it relates to labor rights in supply chains in the tobacco and tea sectors.