Anirban Gupta-Nigam is a research administrator trained at the intersections of the social and human sciences, primarily in Delhi and California. After receiving his PhD in Visual Studies from UC Irvine, he developed and managed a range of national and international programs for the system-wide UC Humanities Research Institute. Prior to joining UC Berkeley, he was the Associate Director of the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida. His writing has appeared in venues like Theory, Culture & Society, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies...
Puneeta Kala is an East Asianist who specialized in Japanese studies. She holds one M.Phil and three MA degrees with the most recent from Harvard University. She has taught courses on comparative religion at Harvard University, the University of Vermont and the University of San Francisco and has been involved in a number of programming and fund-raising initiatives at Harvard and elsewhere.
Anna Chek-Wing Wong is an undergrad student studying history and minoring music at UC Berkeley. She graduated from San Francisco’s Ruth Asawa School of the Arts and achieved the Piano Excellence Award. During her free time, she likes to practice piano and dance.