In this 8th episode of the REFRAME series, we meet Vandana Kumar, who is a publishing executive with a 35-year track record in the industry. As a new immigrant, she co-foundedIndia Currents Magazine in 1987 and published an award-winning print magazine from April 1987 to Dec 2017. Fully digital today, India Currents has the largest following among Indians in the United States.
Vandana has won awards for Overall Excellence at the Greater Bay Area Journalism Awards hosted by the San Francisco Press Club over the past several years. Vandana has won the Asian American Hero Award from the County of Santa Clara and the Leadership in Business award from the California Legislature Assembly. In 2020, Vandana was nominated as an American Leadership Fellow, Class XXXIX (39) with the American Leadership Forum. Vandana cares deeply about social justice and serves on the Friends of PACT Advisory Board. Vandana is President Emeritus, Board of Directors of Narika, an organization that serves women facing domestic violence.
