People Who Power Asia Initiatives
The real power behind Asia Initiatives are the members who give of their
time, energy, enthusiasm and resources. The planning and execution of all our
work is the responsibility of our Board of Directors, who are greatly aided by
volunteers and student interns.
Our inspiration and mentor:
Professor M.S. Swaminathan
Board of Directors-AI Tokyo:
Aftab Seth, Honorary Chair, Former Ambassador of India to Japan
Jagmohan Chandrani, President
Tomoko Takeba, Treasurer
Shashank Bansal
Susan Considine
Geeta Mehta
Sanjeev Sinha
Kaoru Sueda
Afifah Yamasaki
Board of Directors- AI New York:
Aftab Seth, Honorary Chair, Former Ambassador of India to Japan
Geeta Mehta, President
Anne Papantonio, Treasurer
Krishen Mehta, Secretary, co-founder
Rani Bhuva
Dilshad Deyani
Kylie Schuyler
Vanessa Singh
Advisors:
Vicki Corbett, Chair of Friends of Swaminathan in Australia.
Mayuri Odedra Straub, Former board member and founder of Etose
For our website we are grateful to
Nidhi Agarwal (for website management) and to Chris Shannon (for website hosting)
Volunteers who helped us run our Fall event in New York are:
Rani Bhuva
Racha Daher
Natasha Dubash
Vandana Duggal
Kathy Kurtak
Tara Kuruvilla
Dennis Loh
Heidi Loh
Arjun Mehta
Geeta Mehta
Kelly Nealis
Ed Papantonio
Anne Papantonio
Surkhab Peerzada
Penny Poe
Avanti Pranjpye
Kiran Prasad
Mansi Sahu
Rahul Sharma
Vanessa Singh
Temple University Japan Campus Interns over the years:
Temple University Japan Campus offers credited internships for students to work
for Asia Initiatives. Asia Initiatives is committed to mentoring these interns,
introducing them to development issues, and making working for us a rewarding
experience. We are grateful to the following interns for their help:
| 2010 Summer: Sophia Roehr 2009 Spring: Kimberly P Ellis 2008 Fall: Danni Shtraus 2008 Spring: Vanessa Singh, Harish Pathak 2007 Fall: Rachelle Bernadelle, Amandine Weinrob 2007 Summer: Lee Trinh 2007 Spring: Sarah Landry, Marcella McClatchey 2006 Fall: George Hatta 2006 Summer: Alla Kozmina, Seira Arai 2005 Fall: Benjamin Stevenson, Jonathan David 2005 Summer: Emiko Kino, Midori Yano, Natalia Murata 2005 Spring: Jennifer Inoue, Dana Springall 2004 Fall: Vanessa Appolonio, Ayako Tada |
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Star Volunteers:
We are grateful for the time and energy these volunteers have brought to us over many years!:
Tiffany Wang
Kelly Nealis
Aditi Nayar
High School Interns:
These students have helped us over the years. We thank them, and follow their blossoming into future leaders:
Diana Wang
Shivang Gupta
Udita Ghosh
Robert Bowen
Brianne Bowen
Kiran Prasad
