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Thanks for checking out the SAPP Blog. The South Asian Philanthropy Project, or SAPP, aims to create a forum that inspires South Asian Americans to become more involved in philanthropy and volunteering.

This page has information about the SAPP authors and interns. If you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave us some feedback. We are always looking for people to contribute to our blog and propose new ideas and fresh perspectives.


Venu Gupta

Venu Gupta joined the Chicago Committee as the organization’s Executive Director in January 2006. Prior to joining the Chicago Committee, Venu was the Director of Diversity Education & Outreach at Northwestern University School of Law. Through her experiences in law school administration, private practice and non-profit organizations, she brings a working knowledge of the Chicago legal community and law firms on issues of diversity. Venu received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1999. Subsequently, she was a law clerk for the Honorable David H. Coar of the Northern District of Illinois.

Archana Sridhar is Assistant Dean for the Graduate Program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in Toronto, Canada.  Formerly, she was Associate Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at York University and served as Assistant Dean for Research and Special Projects at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana. She received her J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 2001 and completed a year-long U.S. Student Fulbright Fellowship in Guatemala during 2006-07. Archana has worked in foundation and corporate relations for the international humanitarian organization Interplast and as a tax associate at Sullivan & Worcester LLP. As a law student, Archana participated in a number of student groups, including the South Asian Law Students Association, and pursued clinical work with the Harvard Civil Rights Project. Archana’s own continued research addresses international philanthropy, post-conflict development, and tax reform.

Priyanka Dubé

Priyanka Dube is an undergraduate at Indiana University – Bloomington. As a Hudson and Holland Scholar, Priyanka is double majoring in the biological sciences and spanish. Before pursuing her degree at  IU, Priyanka participated in the Indiana University Honors Program in Foreign Language in Valencia, Spain. The past two summer, she interned at the Indiana University School of Medicine Simon Cancer Center. An active participant in the South Asian community, Priyanka is a trained classical dancer and presently volunteers at the Hindu Temple of Central Indiana and the IU Asian Culture Center.

photo-1001Ramya Iyer is currently at the University of Chicago pursuing her graduate degree in Social Work. Her primary orientation is clinical, with a focus on family systems and psychotherapy, and a sub-focus on poverty and inequality. Prior to her graduate degree Ramya was working at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare’s Research Institute in psychosocial research involving cancer patients. She has her undergraduate degree in Psychology from DePaul University and is certified in crisis intervention.

Nancy Gong, a SAPP Summer 2010 New Media Intern, is presently a student at New York Law School with an undergraduate degree in political science and a minor in Asian Studies from Rutgers University. She has a strong interest in international relations that stems from her Chinese-American cultural heritage along with an exposure to a wide array of varying cultures and nationalities in her time at Rutgers. Located in a major nexus of international relations, Nancy is presently the Academic VP of the Asian American Law Students Association and is actively pursuing a future legal career in international law with a focus on philanthropic and humanitarian projects.

Asma M. Ali joins the South Asian Philanthropy Project as a Summer 2010 New Media Intern. Asma has a master’s degree in sociology from Loyola University and is currently pursuing a Ph.D at University of Illinois Chicago in Urban Planning and Policy, with a concentration in Community Development. Asma’s academic interests include organizational and philanthropyic support for multicultural planning processes in communities experiencing racial demographic changes. Asma has over 10 years experience working in community development and research, including 5 years of experience working with an educational consultancy at local, distract, state, and  regional levels. She has managed several large scale survey projects and small scale evaluations for community agencies.

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Nancy Gong, a SAPP Summer 2010 New Media Intern, is presently a student at New York Law School with an undergraduate degree in political science and a minor in Asian Studies from Rutgers University. She has a strong interest in international relations that stems from her Chinese-American cultural heritage along with an exposure to a wide array of varying cultures and nationalities in her time at Rutgers. Located in a major nexus of international relations, Nancy is presently the Academic Vice President of the Asian American Law Students Association and is actively pursuing a future legal career in international law with a focus on philanthropic and humanitarian projects.