Board

Anantha Sudhakar

Anantha Sudhakar is a PhD candidate in English at Rutgers University.  She currently serves as a research assistant at Rutgers’ Center for Race and Ethnicity and, from 2000-2003, worked as the Public Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.  Her poetry has been published in the Asian Pacific American Journal.

Anjali Bhargava

Anjali Bhargava (b. Canada) is a freelance photographer based in New York City. She received her BS in Photography from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Her work had been published and/or shown in the US, Canada, India, Australia, the UK and Germany. Samples of her work can be seen here.

Anjali Goyal

Anjali Goyal works in writing/publishing in New York City and edits fiction for DesiLit, an online literary journal.  Until recently, she was the Programs Director at the Asian American Writers’ Workshop.

Jaishri Abichandani

Born in Bombay, India, Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to New York City in 1984. She received her Master of Visual Arts Degree from Goldsmiths College, University of London and has continued to intertwine art and activism in her career, founding the South Asian Women’s Creative Collective, (www.sawcc.org), in New York and London. She has exhibited her work internationally at various venues including P.S.1/MOMA, the Queens Museum of Art, and Exit Art in New York, the 798 Beijing Biennial and the Guangzhou Triennial in China, Nature Morte, & Gallery Chemould in India, the IVAM in Valencia and the House of World Cultures in Berlin. Jaishri served as the Founding Director of Public Events and Projects from 2003-6 at the Queens Museum of Art where she co- curated Fatal Love: South Asian American Art Now and Queens International 2006 Everything All at Once. Other international curatorial projects include Sultana’s Dream, Exploding the Lotus, Artists in Exile, Anomalies and Transitional Aesthetics. Her work is included in various international collections including the Burger Collection, the Florian Peters Messers Collection (www.fpmcollection.com) and the Saatchi Collection.

Jasmine Wahi

Jasmine Wahi is the Founder of Jasmine Wahi Contemporary Art Advisory- an art advisory service for both Artists and Collectors- and the Co-Founder of Pink Brick House, a media agency that creates exciting pop-culture for smart women. She is a trained gallerist and art historian who graduated from the esteemed College of Arts and Sciences at New York University with her B.A. in Art History and South Asian Studies.

Ms. Wahi has both a professional and personal interest in the Female presence in South Asian and Middle Eastern Contemporary art, and is currently working on several curatorial endeavors in addition to her daily work in media and art.
www.jasminewahi.com
www.pinkbrickhouse.com

Mathangi Subramanian

Dr. Mathangi Subramanian, Ed.D. is an Indian American writer and educator. She is currently the Director of Content in the Department of International Education, Research, and Outreach at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit that produces Sesame Street, where she manages the educational aspects of Sesame’s initiatives in Africa, South Asia, and Haiti. She has received numerous honors, including a Jacob Javits Fellowship, a Teachers College Office of Policy and Research Fellowship, and a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship . Her creative work has appeared in Kahani magazine and the Seal Press anthology Click: When We Knew We Were Feminists. Her scholarly work has appeared in Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, Current Issues in Comparative Education, and the Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. She currently lives in New York City with her pet rabbit, who shares her love of crunchy vegetables and afternoon naps. She is nobody’s wife and nobody’s mother.

Renuka Sawhney

Renuka Sawhney is the Director at the The Guild Art Gallery. With galleries in New York and Mumbai, The Guild is one of the leading galleries showing the works of emerging and established Indian Contemporary Artists.
www.guildindia.com, www.theguildny.com

Sonali Sridhar

In 1998 I moved from Bangalore, India to Atlanta, Georgia to study Communication Design at the Atlanta College of Art. The transition from curry to BBQ was tough, but I soon learned the value of acclimation and tempered my studies with a healthy dose of Americana. At ACA, I focused my studies on graphic design and printmaking.
With a BFA in hand, and up for an adventure, I drove across the country to San Francisco, where I became a collateral and brand designer. A few years later, I headed back across the country once again, this time to pursue a master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, where I specialized in human/object interaction and sensory design.
I currently work as an Interaction Designer in New York, using web, print and mobile electronics to explore the connectivity and psychology of design. I also work with wearable technology, designing objects that interact with daily life, form addictions and provide comfort.