West Windsor Councilwoman Ayesha Hamilton joined us today on the Politics and Spice podcast. Councilwoman Hamilton began serving on the West Windsor Township Council in 2016 and has been active in this role since then. She also has her own law practice, Hamilton Law Firm, P.C., which specializes in employment and business law. The Councilwoman[...]

We chatted with Hillary Clinton’s former National Asian American Pacific Islander Outreach Director Jason Tengco. Jason has served in multiple senior roles in the non-profit sector, government and politics — including serving as the Deputy Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders under President Barack Obama, and as a Congressional[...]

We caught up with Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr. in his New Jersey District Office. Congressman Pallone is one of the most senior members of New Jersey’s Congressional Delegation and serves in the Democratic Leadership in the U.S. House of Representatives as the Ranking Member of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He is also one of[...]

We sat down with Vice-President Dick Cheney’s former Chief Policy Advisor to chat about his journey as a junior staffer in Washington, D.C. to working for one of the most powerful Vice-Presidents in modern history and then founding and currently serving as the Daily Caller’s Publisher and Managing Director for Bluebird Asset Management. Neil talks[...]

We caught up with TV Asia’s News Director Rohit Vyas at the television studios of TV Asia in Edison, New Jersey. Rohit spoke to us about how he went from medical school in India to becoming the longest serving Indian-American journalist in the United States. Rohit also spoke about the proliferation of fake news and[...]

We spoke with President Obama’s Senior Policy Advisor and former Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Patent and Trademark Office, Vikrum Aiyer today on his career working for elected officials in local government, Congress and most recently in the Executive Branch. Vikrum, who was also listed in Forbes 30 Under 30 for[...]

Today, we sat down with Edison Councilwoman Sapana Shah at a diner in Jersey City to discuss her career in law and local politics. She currently serves as Vice President of the Edison Town Council and was a former Board of Education Member for Edison. Councilwoman Shah talks about her journey from Baton Rouge to[...]

Join the New Jersey Leadership Program as we bring you the Politics and Spice podcast, a series of revealing interviews and deep conversations with elected officials, senior government staffers, business executives, non-profit leaders and others in the South Asian community. Listen in and sit across the coffee table as we discuss current events and more[...]