Anu Gupta is an award-winning author, educator, lawyer, scientist, and mindfulness teacher. His award-winning, bestselling book, Breaking Bias: Where Stereotypes and Prejudices Come From and the Science-Backed Method to Unravel Them (2024), features a foreword from the Dalai Lama and offers mindfulness-based tools to heal from bias, trauma, and disconnection.

As a queer immigrant of color, he came to the work of Breaking Bias® after almost ending his life due to lifelong experiences with racism, homophobia, and Islamophobia. The realization that bias is learned and can be unlearned helped lead him out of that dark point. Through his work, Anu envisions an Earth where humans awaken to their interdependence and cultivate the wisdom and compassion needed to dismantle bias, bigotry, and polarization.

Anu has lived, studied, and worked globally, which informs his unique perspective on how different forms of biases – whether they are race, gender, ethnicity, religion, or class-based – use the same neural mechanism to create inequities and inefficiencies in different organizational and cultural contexts. A peer-reviewed author, Anu founded BE MORE in 2014 to apply existing science to tackle disconnection, hatred, and division caused by bias.

Anu has a JD from NYU Law, MPhil in Development Studies from Cambridge, and BA in Int’l Relations and Islamic Studies, summa cum laude, from NYU. Prior to law, he served as a Fulbright middle school teacher in South Korea, studied Spanish in Mexico, worked on international women's rights issues at the UN, and founded an educational nonprofit in Myanmar. His work has reached over 300 organizations, training more than 100,000 professionals and impacting 30 million lives. He lives in New York City with his partner and their thriving indoor jungle of plants.