Anasuya Sengupta
Anasuya Sengupta is an Indian-American poet, author, and activist.
Early life
Anasuya was born in 1974 to her father, Abhijit Sengupta, a senior Indian administrative officer, and her mother, Poile Sengupta (née Ambica Gopalakrishnan), a theatre artist, author, and playwright.[1]
Education
Sengupta studied economics at Lady Shri Ram College for Women, a constituent college of Delhi University in New Delhi, India. She graduated with honours in 1995.[2][3][4] She later pursued doctoral work in politics at Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, Oxford, England. She earned a Master of Philosophy degree in development studies in 1998, while studying as a Rhodes Scholar.[1][5] Her family background was significant to her; she later stated "I have grown up in a family committed to social justice."[1]
Work and activism
Former United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became aware of one of Sengupta's poems in March 1995, while Clinton was First Lady and visiting India. Later, Clinton used the poem in her speeches in Delhi and at a United Nations women's conference in Beijing, China.[2][3][6][4][1][7]
- (excerpt from "Silence"):
Too many women
in too many countries
speak the same language
of silence
The poem also inspired Clinton to write a chapter in her autobiography, Living History, titled "Silence Is Not Spoken Here".[2][3][6][4][8][1]
Sengupta co-edited Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation (2005), which received favorable reviews from Sister Namibia.[9] The Women's Review of Books praised her essay in Defending Our Dreams, calling it a visionary work on feminism and poverty eradication.[10] Feminist Studies also praised the book, noting its cohesive presentation of key feminist perspectives on international trends.[11]
Sengupta is the Chief Grantmaking Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation in San Francisco, California.[12][13] She leads Whose Knowledge, a group dedicated to improving online knowledge and information in marginalized parts of the world, including Asia, Africa, and Latin America.[14] This group aims to "reimagine the internet for and from all." Her work is supported by a fellowship from the Shuttleworth Foundation.[15]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Beary, Habib (June 27, 2003). "Indian's silence speaks to Hillary". BBC News. Archived from the original on June 10, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Staff writers (July 20, 2009). "DU passout's poem inspired chapter in Clinton's autobiography". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Purdum, Todd S. (March 30, 1995). "Hillary Clinton Finding a New Voice". The New York Times. Archived from the original on November 18, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Melanne Verveer; Kim K. Azzarelli (October 6, 2015). Fast Forward: How Women Can Achieve Power and Purpose. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 4–. ISBN 978-0-544-52800-0. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. Search this book on
- ↑ "Anasuya Sengupta – gladly beyond any distance". sanmathi.org. Archived from the original on 19 August 2017. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Indian social worker Anasuya Sengupta ta". Getty Images. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ Chakravarthy, Smitha (August 7, 2003). "The Hindu : A poem that moved a Clinton". The Hindu. Archived from the original on January 17, 2004. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ Paul Amar (September 13, 2013). New Racial Missions of Policing: International Perspectives on Evolving Law-Enforcement Politics. Taylor & Francis. pp. 207–. ISBN 978-1-317-98903-5. Archived from the original on November 26, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2017. Search this book on
- ↑ "Defending Our Dreams: Global Feminist Voices for a New Generation". Sister Namimbia. December 2005. Archived from the original on 3 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ Humphrey, Michelle (July 2006). "New Dreams, New Faces". The Women's Review of Books. Archived from the original on 20 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2018 – via HighBeam Research. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ Porter, Marilyn (Spring 2007). "Transnational Feminisms in a Globalized World: Challenges, Analysis, and Resistance". Feminist Studies. 33 (1): 43–63 – via EBSCOhost. (Subscription required (help)). Cite uses deprecated parameter
|subscription=(help) - ↑ Hartnell, Caroline (October 9, 2013). "Just published: interview with Anasuya Sengupta of the Wikimedia Foundation – Alliance magazine". Alliance magazine. Archived from the original on September 12, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ McCambridge, Ruth (September 24, 2013). "The Radical Passion Economy of Wikipedia: An Interview with Anasuya Sengupta – Non Profit News | Nonprofit Quarterly". NPQ: Nonprofit Quarterly. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
- ↑ "MIT Libraries host Grand Challenges Summit". MIT News. March 30, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
- ↑ "Anasuya Sengupta". The Guardian. October 5, 2017. Archived from the original on October 6, 2017. Retrieved November 26, 2017.
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- Whose Knowledge? –
- Anasuya Sengupta on LinkedIn
- Institute for South Asia Studies, UC Berkeley Archived 4 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine
- Poster campaign against hate
- Vitae Archived 20 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- WMF welcomes Sengupta as grantmaker in 2013 Archived 20 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
- World Affairs bio Archived 20 September 2018 at the Wayback Machine
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