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SAVE-THE-DATE!
Congress 2006 will be held on Saturday, February 25, 2006 SAWLF
Second Annual Congress 2006 |
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Anita Itty joins South Asian Women's
Leadership Forum as contributing essayist. Each quarter, Ms. Itty will
write on topics of leadership, identity, business & culture. SAWLF is committed to the advancement of South Asian women in the workplace. In the June 2004 issue of Working Mother magazine, SAWLF's National Director is featured in Can We Talk? A candid conversation about race and career by Caroline Howard Recent SAWLF Events: Special guest speakers include Shoba Purushothaman, CEO and Co-Founder, The NewsMarket and Geeta Anand, Senior Special Writer, Wall Street Journal.  Geeta Anand, Senior Special Writer, Wall Street Journal Additional speakers to be announced. To register on-line, click here
SAWLF presents its inaugural Congress 2005 on Saturday, February 26, 2005 in Manhattan. Sara Mathew, Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation and Zeyba Rahman, Chairperson, World Music Institute and Producing Partner, Jungli Billi Productions will deliver the keynote address. Additional special guests and participants to be announced. To register on-line, click here In December 2004, SAWLF presents Behind the Scenes:Women In Film Series at the South Asian International Film Festival (SAIFF) December 1 - 5, 2004 in New York City. SAWLF is proud to sponsor a selection of films: Meenaxi (2004); What r We Doin' Here & Ladies Special. For additional information, visit SAIFF "Getting Real Success", Join SAWLF on October 19, 2004 as we explore the complexity of defining and achieving success amid converging personal and professional goals and demands with Subha Barry, First Vice President of Multicultural and Diversified Business Development for Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.; Jeanine Prime, Director of Research for Catalyst; and Jyoti Chopra, head of South Asian business in Merrill Lynch Global Private Client’s Multicultural and Diversified Business Development Group. Additional speakers to be confirmed. To register, click here Join the SAWLF table on Saturday, October 16, 2004 for Celebrating Women's Lives, the annual SAKHI Benefit Gala at Chelsea Piers. This special event features actress Nandita Das & the Vagina Monologues' Eve Ensler. For ticket information, please contact SAWLF Join SAWLF on Sunday, September 19, 2004 for a special performance and reception with the UK comedy sensation, Shazia Mirza and THE LAST TEMPTATION OF SHAZIA. Click here to register. This event is made possible by the generous support of Western Union. Join SAWLF
at the Working Mother Best Companies for
Women of Color Multicultural Conference, July 20-21, 2004 in New York
City.
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Jyoti Thottam is a business reporter for Time magazine in New York. She joined the magazine in Jan. 2002 after working as a reporter at Time Inc's ON Magazine, a technology magazine, for almost two years.
She was president of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association - one of the nation's most dynamic and largest journalists' associations - for 2001 and 2002. She continues to play an active role in the organization.
Before joining Time Inc in March 2000, Jyoti wrote about Queens, the most ethnically diverse county in the world, for the Times/Ledger Newspapers. She has a special interest in immigration and education and has written on those topics extensively. She has been honored by the Suburban Newspaper Association and the Inland Press Foundation for her work. A series she directed on the impact of school overcrowding on education in Queens won first place for in-depth reporting from the New York Press Association.
Jyoti graduated from Yale University in 1993 with a B.A. in religion and economics, and she has maintained an interest in the political economy and religions of South Asia ever since then. Occasionally, she gets back to New Haven, most recently to deliver a speech on "The Future of South Asian Political Participation in New York City" as part of the South Asianist Lecture Series at Yale.
She spent her childhood in Queens and in Houston, Texas. Her first job after college was working as a reporter for American City Business Journals in northern Florida, where she covered manufacturing and the regional economy. From there, she went to graduate school at Columbia, earning a master's degree in international affairs in 1997. Her paper "Reporting on Economic Issues in India" was published as part of a conference, "American Reporting on India and Pakistan" at Columbia University's Southern Asian Institute in April 1997.
After graduate school, she went to India, Thailand and Nepal, travelling and writing as a freelancer before coming back to New York in 1998. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Village Voice, Christian Science Monitor, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, San Francisco Chronicle, Voice of America radio, City Limits and Himal magazine.
Jyoti is the director of the New York screenings of Himal's "Travelling Film South Asia" documentary film festival, which she has organized since 1998.
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