Vandana Kumar
Vandana Kumar is the Publisher and CEO of India Currents, the leading digital platform for Indian Americans in the United States. As a new immigrant, she co-founded India Currents in 1987, publishing an award-winning print magazine for over three decades before transitioning it to a fully digital format in 2018.
A recognized leader in ethnic media, Vandana has received numerous accolades, including the Asian American Hero Award from the County of Santa Clara and the Leadership in Business Award from the California State Legislature Assembly, which she has won twice. In 2024, under her leadership, India Currents was honored with the Community Impact Award by the Asian American Journalists Association.
Vandana currently serves on the Board of the California News Publishers Association. She is also a Knight Fellow and an AAJA Simon and June Li Leadership Transformation Fellow for the Media Transformation Challenge, reflecting her dedication to innovation and sustainability in journalism. More by Vandana Kumar
Vijay Rajvaidya
Vijay Rajvaidya is a veteran of the high-tech and Information Technology industry of Silicon Valley. Vijay has an MBA in Finance from Santa Clara University and multiple degrees in engineering. He has 30 years of experience in global marketing and sales.
Passionate about India’s rich culture, heritage, and civilizational history, Vijay is walking through all 12 Shiv temples (Jyotirling Temples) in India, a walk longer than 6,000 miles, replicating the journey of Sri Adi Shankaracharya in the 8th century. He is also visiting rural high schools during his walk to promote the Literacy Project “Each One, Teach One” of Rotary India.
Vijay is a theater actor, a pilot, a mountaineer, and a certified scuba diver. More by Vijay Rajvaidya
Meera Kymal
Meera Kymal is the Managing Editor at India Currents and Founder/Producer at desicollective.media.
She produces multi-platform content on the South Asian diaspora through the lens of social justice, politics, and the arts. Her stories examine how racial disparities and health inequities disproportionately affect minority communities in a world that is more diverse but less equal.
Meera is a 2021 & 2022 Fellow of USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism, reporting on domestic violence in the South Asian community. In 2022 she won a grant from Altavoz Labs to report on aging. In 2023, Meera won a Journalists in Aging Fellowship from The Gerontological Society of America and the Journalists Network on Generations.
She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club and from California News Publishers Association for In-Depth Reporting. Her stories have appeared on India Currents, Palabra, The San Diego Union Tribune, Indiaspora, American Kahani, and AALDEF.
Meera has won grant funding for India Currents from the Facebook Journalism Project, United Way Bay Area, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Network for Good and GNI, among others.
Check out articles by Meera: https://indiacurrents.com/author/meera-kymal/ More by Meera Kymal
Snigdha Sen
Snigdha Sen is Contributing Editor at India Currents and Co-Founder & Head of Content of video strategy startup, UpendNow.com. She holds a Master of Journalism from the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley and is an alum of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication in New Delhi, India.
At Berkeley, Snighda was part of the online reporting team for the Emmy-award-winning PBS documentary, “The Secret History of the Credit Card.”
She was Contributing Editor (South Asia) for BlogHer.com. Her work has appeared in several publications, including Bloomberg News, Fresno Bee, Business 2.0, and East Bay Business Times. Prior to moving to the U.S., Snigdha was a journalist at The Times of India, New Delhi.
A first-generation immigrant and parent, she is deeply interested in issues that impact the South Asian diaspora. More by Snigdha Sen
Nandita Bose
Nandita Chowdhury Bose is Contributing Editor at India Currents. In Mumbai, she worked at India Today and Society magazines, besides other digital publications. In the United States, she has been a communications consultant. More by Nandita Bose
Priya Lava
Priya manages the Operations at India Currents. She is passionate about cooking and gardening and loves to travel. As a new immigrant, she enjoyed reading India Currents as a print magazine, and is proud to be a part of it now. More by Priya Lava
Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney
Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney is the Donor Engagement Advisor at India Currents and Founder/Producer at desicollective.media. She brings her passion for community journalism and experience in fundraising, having served on the boards of several educational and philanthropic non-profits.
She also reports on the South Asians diaspora covering the social and cultural impact of issues like immigration, health, social justice, politics, census, elections, technology and the arts.
Anjana is a 2021 and 2022 Fellow of USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism, reporting on domestic violence in the South Asian community. She also won a grant from Altavoz Labs to report on aging in 2022 and the 2024 Journalists in Aging Fellowship from the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) and the Journalists Network on Generations to report on menopause.
She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club and from California News Publishers Association for In-Depth Reporting. Her stories have appeared on India Currents, Palabra, San Diego Herald-Tribune, Indiaspora and American Kahani. More by Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney
Prachi Singh
Prachi Singh is the Audience Engagement Editor at India Currents. She is a journalist who worked at Bay City News for audience engagement. She was a Dow Jones News Fund intern and part of the inaugural audience engagement residency program at Temple University. She is a recent journalism graduate from University of Southern California where she worked at Annenberg Media as a Multimedia Journalist and the Managing Editor. Prachi has covered social justice, climate, arts and culture, and human interest stories. She is interested in written and visual storytelling. More by Prachi Singh
Sobhan Hassanvand
Sobhan Hassanvand is a multimedia journalist and California Local News Fellow at India Currents. Originally from Iran, he worked in social media and news reporting for major outlets in Tehran before earning his Master of Journalism from UC Berkeley in 2024. He later served as a social media producer at Bay City News, a Bay Area–based newsroom, where he helped grow its social media presence. At India Currents, Sobhan focuses on audience engagement and social media production, amplifying community stories for wider digital audiences. More by Sobhan Hassanvand