Tanushree Ghosh

Tanushree Ghosh (PhD, Cornell University; alumna, IIT Kanpur and Presidency College, Kolkata) works in the technology sector in the USA. She is also a social activist and author. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems and stories are in effort to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning women and social justice. She is a contributor (past and present) to several publications, including The Huffington Post, USA; The Logical Indian; Youth Ki Awaaz; The Tribune , India; Women's Web; Thrive...See more

Tanushree Ghosh (PhD, Cornell University; alumna, IIT Kanpur and Presidency College, Kolkata) works in the technology sector in the USA. She is also a social activist and author. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems and stories are in effort to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning women and social justice. She is a contributor (past and present) to several publications, including The Huffington Post, USA; The Logical Indian; Youth Ki Awaaz; The Tribune , India; Women's Web; Thrive Global; and Cafe Dissensus (where she hosted her own segment on social satire titled 'Black Light'). Her literary resume includes poems and stories featured in national and international magazines (Words, Pauses and Noises-UK; Tuck ; The Pangolin Review ; and Glimmer Train's Honorable Mention) as well as inclusion in nine anthologies such as Defiant Dreams (Oprah 2016 reading list placeholder) and The Best Asian Short Stories , 2017 (Kitaab, Singapore). Her first single-author work is From An-Other Land (December 2018, Readomania Publishing). She is the founder and director of Her Rights Inc., a 501(3)c non-profit committed to furthering the cause of gender equality. She frequently speaks on gender rights, social justice, and diversity and inclusion in corporate and non-profit events. She is a member of corporate diversity equity and inclusion management committees and an advisory board member of organizations representing minority voices. See less