Mr. Paul Pandian: Category: Business and Entrepreneurship Paul Pandian is founder and president of Transglobal Technologies, Inc., a holding company with investments in telecom, media, oil and natural gas. He also serves as an advisor to Tech Mahindra, a software services company based in India. Previously, he founded Axes Technologies, a provider of telecommunications products…

Mr. Cottalango Leon: Category : Media Tech Cottalango Leon is an Indian-American computer graphics technician who won the Academy Award for scientific and technical achievement jointly with Sam Richards and J.Robert Ray in 2016. Leon won the Academy Award for “the design, engineering and continuous development”[a] of Sony Pictures Imageworks itView technology, a digital 3D…

Dr. Paramsothy Jayakumar Category: Science Paramsothy Jayakumar is Senior Technical Expert for Analytics at the U.S. Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center. A Department of Defense Scientist of the Quarter in March 2016, and Fellow of the Society of Automotive Engineers since 2013, he serves as Associate Editor of the American Society of…

Dr. Nimmi Gowrinathan Category: Social Activism Dr. Gowrinathan is the Founder and Director of the Politics of Sexual Violence Initiative, a global study examining the impact of rape on women’s political identities, and a Visiting Research Professor at the Colin Powell Center for Global and Civic Leadership at City College New York. She is currently…

D’Lo Category: Entertainment D’Lo is a queer/transgender interdisciplinary artist. A member of Teada Productions, board member for Brown Boi Project, and co-producer for DisOriented Comedy, he toured his full-length stand-up storytelling show D’FunQT through the UK, India, and Sri Lanka. His tv/film credits include Looking, Transparent, Sense 8, Bruising for Besos, Eastsiders, and Dyke Central….

Gary Anandasangaree  Category: Public Service Gary Anandasangaree is a Canadian Member of Parliament, representing Scarborough-Rouge Park, and an internationally recognized human rights attorney. He previously represented Lawyer’s Rights Watch Canada at the United Nations and served as president of the Canadian Tamils’ Chamber of Commerce, counsel for Canadian Tamil Congress, and chair of the Canadian…

Ahilan Arulanantham Category: Legal Services During his tenure at ACLU SoCal, Ahilan has successfully litigated several landmark cases, including Nadarajah v. Gonzales, the first Ninth Circuit case establishing limits on the government’s power to detain immigrants as national security threats; Rodriguez v. Robbins, which required the government to provide bond hearings to thousands of immigration…

Bhi Bhiman Category: Music Bhi Ramesvara Bhiman was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Bhiman had an allAmerican childhood that he has referred to as “a sort of Brown Norman Rockwell existence with lots of running around in creeks and playing baseball”.He played in the city’s most competitive leagues from ages 7–17, often traveling…

Dr. Ramanathan Raju Category: Medicine Ramanathan (Ram) Raju, MD, MBA, FACS, FACHE is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation (HHC), the largest municipal healthcare system in the nation. Dr. Raju was appointed by New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in January 2014 to lead the…

Prof. Priyamvada Natarajan Category: Academia Prof Priya is a theoretical astrophysicist interested in cosmology, gravitational lensing and black hole physics. Her research involves mapping the detailed distribution of dark matter in the universe exploiting the bending of light en-route to us from distant galaxies. In particular, she has focused on making dark matter maps of…