Author Archives: Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney
Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney is a journalist at India Currents and Founder/Producer at desicollective.media reporting on the South Asian diaspora; she covers the social and cultural impact of issues like health, immigration, politics, elections, and the arts. She recently received a fellowship from the USC Ethnic Media Collaborative to report on health issues in the South Asian community.
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.
Anjana holds a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.
