Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla is a physicist turned founder of the 1947 Partition Archive.   After a 2008 visit to the oral testimony archives at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial she was inspired and began interviewing Partition witnesses in 2009.  This led to the concept of crowd sourcing oral histories of Partition, there by engaging the public in recording the people's history of the world's largest mass human displacement.  In 2011, The 1947 Partition Archive was born. 

COSAW 018: How Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla Made A Career Pivot and Made It Her Mission To Preserve Oral Histories

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Sukhi Singh is the founder of the multi-million dollar Indian food company, Sukhi’s. Sukhi is responsible for bringing Indian food to mainstream America through venues like farmer’s markets, Wholefoods and Costco.

COSAW 037: How Sukhi's brought Indian food to mainstream America from Wholefoods to Costco

Optimist. Dreamer. South Asian Fashion Game Changer. Tia Bhuva created the Cancan skirt and Saree Silhouette to wear under the traditional 6 yard saree. Tia gained influencer status amongst South Asian women.

COSAW 036: How Tia Bhuva Launched a Successful Business Helping South Asian Women Reconnect with the Sari

Mai Ton brings over 15 years of experience to her role as VP of People for tech companies. 
She is a frequent speaker and shares her HR leadership and management experience to help others in the competitive landscape specific to Silicon Valley.

COSAW 035: How Tech VP of People Mai Ton Made The Best Investment In Her Career

Yasmine leads Design Research at Credit Karma in San Francisco where she brings the financial journeys of real people from diverse backgrounds into the workplace. She is a budding stand up comic. In 2014, Yasmine lost her brother to a heroin overdose. This profound loss has brought urgency to her drive to work with institutions to elevate the importance of making personal connections with the "people behind the numbers" as we work to understand and solve social problems

COSAW 034: How Yasmine Khan brings human faces and human stories to inform product design

Nancy Hoque is a multipotentialite, as she is a woman of many different interests and creative pursuits in life. Nancy was a solutions engineer, entreprenuer, and is MBA student UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

COSAW 018: How Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla Made A Career Pivot and Made It Her Mission To Preserve Oral Histories

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