Seema Verma
Seema Verma is an American health policy administrator who became the first person of Indian origin to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As Administrator from 2017 to 2021, she oversaw the federal agency responsible for providing health coverage to more than 160 million Americans and managing one of the world’s largest […]
Aruna Miller
Aruna Miller is an American politician who became Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor in 2023, the first South Asian woman elected to statewide executive office in the United States. An engineer by training, she previously served in the Maryland House of Delegates, where she focused on transportation, infrastructure, and economic development. Her election marked another milestone in […]
Kamala Harris
Kamala Harris is an American politician who became the first Indian American elected to the U.S. Senate from California in 2016. She previously served as California’s Attorney General and District Attorney of San Francisco. In 2021, she became the first woman, first Black American, and first person of South Asian descent to serve as Vice […]
Nikki Haley
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Reshma Saujani
Reshma Saujani is a lawyer, activist, and social entrepreneur best known for founding Girls Who Code, a nonprofit organization dedicated to expanding opportunities for women in technology. Through coding programs, educational initiatives, and advocacy, she helped create a national movement to address the gender gap in computer science and engineering. Her work has introduced hundreds […]
Anna Asava
Anna Asava is a philanthropist and community leader whose charitable work has strengthened education, healthcare, and humanitarian initiatives. Together with her husband, Raj Asava, she has supported nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable communities while promoting a culture of strategic philanthropy within the Indian American diaspora. The HungerMitao movement started by the Asavas has enabled over 80 […]
Chandrika Tandon
Chandrika Tandon is a business leader, philanthropist, and Grammy Award-winning musician whose work spans finance, education, healthcare, and the arts. After a successful career in consulting and banking, she became one of the leading Indian American philanthropists supporting higher education, leadership development, neuroscience, and public health. Together with her husband, Ranjan Tandon, she has made […]
Aruna Masih
Aruna Masih is an American jurist and former labor and civil rights attorney. In 2023, she became the first Indian American, South Asian American, and Punjabi justice on the Oregon Supreme Court. Before joining the bench, she spent more than two decades representing employees, labor unions, and public sector clients in complex labor and pension […]
Rachel Paulose
Rachel Paulose is an American lawyer and former U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. In 2006, she became the first Indian American woman nominated by a president and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to any federal office. As the chief federal prosecutor for Minnesota, she oversaw criminal prosecutions and represented the United States in […]
Preeta Bansal
Preeta D. Bansal is an American lawyer and public servant. Appointed Solicitor General of New York in 1999, she became the first Indian American to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court. As New York’s chief appellate lawyer, she handled major constitutional and public policy cases, helping establish Indian American representation at the highest […]