Anannya Bhattacharjee is based in New York City and is currently the program officer at the Unitarian Universalist Veatch Program. She is the former executive director of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities; founder and former executive coordinator of Sakhi for South Asian Women; and co-founder of the SAMAR Collective (a South Asian media resource). In 1998, she was awarder the Activist-in Residence fellowship from the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, and in 1999, she became a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Furutre of the City of New York at Columbia University. She writes and speaks widely on social justice work.