Anju Bhargava is a community builder with over four decades of experience developing multi-dimensional strategies to address critical issues in an interdependent global environment.

A Vedantic teacher and ordained Hindu minister/chaplain, Anju was the only Hindu American appointed to President Obama’s Inaugural Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, where she founded Hindu American Seva Communities to promote community service and social justice. She has also served on the Department of Homeland Security’s Faith-Based Security and Communications Advisory Committee and was a White House Community Builder Fellow during the Clinton Administration.