
Niharika Acharya is the Executive Director at The Hill. She leads the event content team in ideation, strategy setting and speaker recruitment. In taking events from concept to execution, she works closely with The Hill's newsroom to develop programs that examine the impact of policies and regulations on a national and international scale. Previously, as a senior producer with Atlantic LIVE, the events division of The Atlantic, her work focused on politics and policy events. She played a leading role in the conceptualization and execution of events during the 2016 Republican and Democratic conventions.

Jenny Bhatt is an Indian-American writer, literary translator, and literary critic. She is the author of a short story collection, Each of Us Killers, and a literary translation, Ratno Dholi: The Best Stories of Dhumketu. She is also the host of the Desi Books podcast.

Rajiv Chandrasekaran is an Indian-American journalist. He is the National Editor of The Washington Post, where he has worked since 1994.

Pratap Chatterjee is an Indian/Sri Lankan investigative journalist and progressive author. He is a British citizen and grew up in India, although he lived in California for many years. He serves as the executive director of CorpWatch, an Oakland-based corporate accountability organisation. He also works for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London. He writes regularly for The Guardian and serves on the board of Amnesty International USA and of the Corporate Europe Observatory

Maneet Chauhan is an Indian American chef and television personality of Punjabi origin. Previously the Executive Chef of several notable restaurants in Chicago, Nashville, and New York, she is featured as a judge on Chopped on the Food Network. She has appeared on The Next Iron Chef, on The View on ABC, Iron Chef America, the Today show on NBC, and as a judge on the finale of Worst Cooks in America on Food Network. Chef Maneet Chauhan was invited by President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for the Annual Easter Egg Roll Hunt 2014 to the White House. She is also an invited member of Indiaspora that hosted 100 influential Indian American leaders as part of its first Forum in September 2012. The three-day Forum events aimed to energize the community and provide a voice with which it articulated collective goals. Chef Chauhan, a Culinary Institute of America alumna, delivered the keynote for the associate degree commencement on the college's Hyde Park campus and also received a recognition of "Distinguished Service to the Foodservice and Hospitality Industry" as the Ambassador of the Culinary Institute of America.

Priya David Clemens is an American journalist based in San Francisco, California.

Sopan Deb is an American journalist who works as a culture reporter for The New York Times.

Navin Doshi is an author, scholar, philanthropist, and co-founder of Nalanda International, a non-profit organization.

Sanjay Gupta is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at the Emory University School of Medicine, and chief medical correspondent for CNN.

Lester Don Holt Jr. is an American journalist and news anchor for the weekday edition of NBC Nightly News and Dateline NBC. On June 18, 2015, Holt was made the permanent anchor of NBC Nightly News following the demotion of Brian Williams. Holt followed in the career footsteps of Max Robinson an ABC News evening co-anchor and Holt became the first African-American to solo anchor a weekday network nightly newscast. Holt is also known for his moderation of the first Presidential debate of 2016 and was praised by The Washington Post columnists for his role in fact-checking false statements. While NBC Nightly News was the top ranked evening news program during the Tom Brokaw era and Brian Williams era for over 30 years, ratings dropped to second place after Holt began as anchor.

Om Prakash Malik is an Indian-American web and technology writer. He is the founder and a former senior writer for GigaOM. He is now a partner at True Ventures.

Sunanda Tripathi-Manteris is an Indian-born American account executive and former journalist at the NBC affiliate in Las Vegas, Nevada, KSNV-DT.

Tulika Mehrotra is an American writer and journalist of Indian descent.

Suketu Mehta is the New York-based author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found, which won the Kiriyama Prize and the Hutch Crossword Award, and was a finalist for the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, the Lettre Ulysses Prize, the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize, and the Guardian First Book Award. His autobiographical account of his experiences in Mumbai, Maximum City, was published in 2004. The book, based on two and a half years research, explores the underbelly of the city.

Seema Mody is a reporter/anchor for CNBC. Mody joined CNBC in July 2011 after previously being an anchor and reporter at CNBC-TV18 in Mumbai, India. While airing on CNBC-TV18, Mody co-anchored two programs, Power Breakfast and After the Bell, as well as co-producing and anchoring other special features.

Aimee Nezhukumatathil is an American poet. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land.

Reena Ninan is an American television journalist currently working for CBS News, based in New York City.

Asra Quratulain Nomani is an American author and former Georgetown University professor. She is co-director of the Pearl Project, a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

Ramesh Ponnuru is an American conservative political pundit and journalist. A visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute since 2012, he is also a senior editor for National Review magazine, a columnist for Bloomberg View, and a contributing editor to the domestic policy journal National Affairs.

Manu Raju is an American journalist who serves as the Senior Congressional Correspondent at the news network CNN, covering the United States Congress and campaign politics. Raju previously reported for Politico as a senior Capitol Hill correspondent and for other D.C. news outlets as well.

Aneesh Raman is Senior Advisor on Economic Strategy and External Affairs to California Governor Gavin Newsom. Prior to this appointment, Raman spent five years in the tech industry, most recently as Head of Economic and Social Impact Policy at Facebook. Raman previously held a number of positions in the Obama Administration, including as a speechwriter to the President of the United States, Barack Obama, making him the country's first Indian-American Presidential Speechwriter. Raman details his experience as President Obama's speechwriter in a chapter in West Wingers: Stories from the Dream Chasers, Change Makers, and Hope Creators Inside the Obama White House.

Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan, born in 1974, is an American broadcast journalist.

Sreenath "Sree" Sreenivasan is an academic and practitioner in journalism and communications, serving as the inaugural Marshall R. Loeb visiting professor at Stony Brook University School of Journalism in New York. He was previously chief digital officer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and chief digital officer of Columbia University. He also served as chief digital officer of the City of New York from October 2016 through May 2017. He has been a technology journalist based in New York City and served as an academic administrator and professor in the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2015, he was named one of Fast Company magazine's Most Creative People of the year. He was also identified as the most influential Chief Digital Officer of 2016 by CDO Club.

Aatish Ali Taseer is a British-American writer and journalist.

Alok Vaid-Menon is an Indian-American writer, performance artist, and media personality who performs under the moniker ALOK. Alok is gender non-conforming and transfeminine and uses singular they pronouns.

Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran is an award-winning correspondent for The Economist.

Siddharth Varadarajan is an Indian American journalist, editor and academic. He was a former editor of the Indian English language national daily The Hindu, and is one of the founding editors of the Indian digital news portal The Wire.

Reetika Gina Vazirani was an Indian/American immigrant poet and educator.

Fareed Rafiq Zakaria is an Indian-American journalist, political commentator, and author. He is the host of CNN's Fareed Zakaria GPS and writes a weekly paid column for The Washington Post. He has been a columnist for Newsweek, editor of Newsweek International, and an editor at large of Time.