Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 7 mos

• I help lead the effort at LinkedIn to shape the global conversation around - and the global response to - one of the greatest disruptions to work in human history. My main focus right now is launching LinkedIn’s first-ever book, Open to Work, which I co-authored with our CEO, Ryan Roslansky.
• LinkedIn’s vision is to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Right now, that means helping every member understand and navigate this moment of big change, especially workers who’ve historically had the least access to the tools and insights needed to keep up. It also means working with leaders across sectors to redesign the systems that surround work - education, employment, and entrepreneurship - so they become more dynamic, more inclusive, and, for the first time ever, human-centric. If we do all that, I have no doubt we will open more doors to economic opportunity for more people in more places than ever before.

Sep 2022 – Aug 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Partnered with workforce development leaders around the world to build a skills-based labor market where a person’s capabilities - not simply the pedigree credentials they could (or, for the vast majority of workers globally, could not) obtain - are at the center of how the labor market connects talent and opportunity.

Mar 2021 – Aug 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

• Shanti Bhavan is a boarding school exclusively for children born into India's lowest socioeconomic class. We provide high-quality education from pre-K through 12th grade as well as personalized support through college and across careers, all to break the generational cycle of poverty.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

• Led the public affairs team tasked with advancing an agenda for inclusive growth in one of the largest economies in the world. Key initiatives included launching a nationally relevant Future of Work Commission, mobilizing a new 'Regions Rise Together' public-private partnership to spur growth in inland areas and helping to manage the economic response to a global pandemic.

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs

• Led a team responsible for working with education, government and non profit organizations globally to deliver economic impact for workers and small businesses. Key initiative was co-leading a 40 city global tour that delivered in person digital marketing training for small businesses and workers as well as curriculum partnerships with local colleges.

Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 · 2 yrs

• Led communications, marketing and partnership efforts at a since acquired EdTech startup that sought to expand access to higher education, especially for first generation students.

Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 · 1 yr

• Led communications, marketing and partnerships for a new media startup.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 · 2 yrs · Washington, District Of Columbia

• One of five domestic policy speechwriters for President Obama. Worked with the President and senior staff to structure and write speeches across a range of topics. First Indian-American Presidential speechwriter.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 · 0 mo · Arlington, VA

• Associate Director of office charged with creating communications strategies around key national security priorities.

Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 · 2 yrs · Washington DC

• At the height of a historic global economic and financial crisis, crafted high-profile speeches, op-eds and Congressional testimonies for Secretary Tim Geithner that shaped an unprecedented national and global response and recovery effort.

Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 · 0 mo · Chicago, Illinois, United States

Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 · 1 yr

• First CNN correspondent assigned to region-wide coverage of the Middle East.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs

• Baghdad correspondent during some of the worst days of the Iraq War. Reported extensively on the lived experience of everyday Iraqis. Embedded with U.S. forces regularly and broke news repeatedly on the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein as well as the many attempts to form a government. Appeared regularly on every major CNN show.

Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 · 1 yr

• Part of CNN team awarded a DuPont award for coverage of the 2004 tsunami in Asia. Reported from across the region, including Singapore, Cambodia, India, Philippines and Indonesia.

Jan 2002 – Jan 2004 · 2 yrs

• Reported for Inside Politics, Anderson Cooper 360 and the general CNN system. Assignment Editor on International Desk, which oversees all newsgathering outside the U.S. and Canada.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2002 · 1 yr · India

Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 · 3 yrs

• While in college, hosted a live sports call-in show on NECN, a regional cable news channel, that featured professional athletes from every major Boston team. Won a New England Emmy for ’Best Host’.