On June 30, the State of California’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) sued Cisco Systems – a major supplier of computer networking gear that makes the internet work – indicting the company of discriminating against an engineer because he is Dalit1 (formerly “untouchables”). This statement from Ambedkar King Study Circle seeks solidarity from media, technology, academic community and industry professionals to end caste-based discrimination and practices in the US.
We the undersigned welcome that the State of California has sued Cisco Systems for allowing its employees to practice caste at the workplace. This incident illustrates both – the casual and commonplace presence of everyday caste-based practices at the workplace, and the more conscious practice of caste discrimination pervasive in the US amongst Indian Americans, Indians and South Asians.
According to Silicon Valley Institute for Regional Studies in 2018, there were more high-skilled workers in Silicon Valley from India (25%) than from China (15%); California (16%); or from the rest of the country (16%)2. We, therefore, urge, all tech-corporations in Silicon Valley to be sensitive to caste practices and caste-based discrimination at their workplaces and ensure appropriate policies and protections are in place to guarantee safe and dignified working environment to all Dalit and so-called “low” caste employees.
At the moment, US employment law does not bar caste-based discrimination. We request the California State agency to seize this opportunity to have legal protection in place to protect Dalit and other so-called “low” caste employees.
According to DFEH, a Dalit employee suffered discrimination and harassment at the workplace once his dominant caste colleague “outed” him. The complex of trauma, humiliation, devaluation of self-worth, and perpetuation of caste stereotypes (especially against Dalits) – has severe impacts on workplace conditions, the right to dignity and commitment to diversity as a bulwark of modern organizations. The last names of the alleged harassers – Iyer and Kompella – are also their dominant caste names.
As per DFEH, Iyer “outed” the Dalit employee by telling colleagues that the victim enrolled at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology through affirmative action – a claim that includes the connotation that affirmative action is inherently devoid of “merit”. This consequently shaped the actions of Iyer and his so-called “upper caste” colleagues, and the successive line manager. They allegedly proceeded to harass the victim and assigned unrealistic tasks to set him up for failure.
Caste is a hierarchical category based on pre-set social identities of birth and ancestry or descent. In its historical origins, caste has a close relation to occupation and exploitation. This nexus continues with some changes in modern times. The most excluded caste groups now self-identify as Dalits.
Dominant caste groups, for centuries, forcibly assigned occupations to Dalits and stigmatized those occupations. This stigma continues even after Dalits move outside of caste-affected societies and find new professions such as engineers in Silicon Valley. In the words of one of India’s foremost modern public intellectuals, chief drafter of the Indian Constitution, the most influential leader of Dalits in the 20th century, and an economist, anthropologist and philosopher – Dr B.R. Ambedkar: “the caste system is not merely a division of labour. It is a division of labourers.” In the minds of oppressors, the Dalit victim did not and should not belong to that workplace.
We now know that the victim had filed complaints as early as in November 2016 to the Cisco Human Resources (HR) department about the discriminatory behaviour of his dominant caste line managers. However, Cisco HR did not act on these complaints on the ground that caste discrimination was not unlawful in the US3.
We, therefore, appeal to all American companies, including those in Silicon Valley to be sensitive to ubiquitous caste practices and caste-based discrimination. We urge them to recognize caste, as operating similarly to race and gender as a source of discrimination and harassment and incorporate caste practices as an unfair and punishable practice in their Human Resource policies.
~~ Executive Committee, Ambedkar King Study Circle. Thank You!
We, the following organizations, support AKSC’s solidarity statement:
- Ambedkar Association of North America, USA
- Ambedkar International Mission, USA
- Ambedkar King Study Circle, USA
- Association for India’s Development, USA
- Bay Area Against Hindu Fascism, California, USA
- Boston Coalition, USA
- Coalition of Seattle of Indian-Americans, USA
- Dalit Solidarity Network, London, United Kingdom
- Global Indians Progressive Alliance, USA
- Graduate Student Organizing Committee (GSOC-UAW-2110), NY, USA
- India Civil Watch International, USA
- International Dalit Solidarity Network, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Periyar International USA, Gurnee, Illinois
- Political Action Platform for Tamils (PAPT), Sacramento, CA
- Sadhana, Coalition of Progressive Hindus, USA
- Students Against Hindutva Ideology (SAHI), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
We, the following individuals, support AKSC’s solidarity statement:
- AAZIZ ZILANAWALA, Richardson, TX, USA
- ANIRUDDHA DAS, New York, NY 10027, NY, USA
- ARVIND MENON, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Aamir Qureshi, San Jose, CA.
- Aaron Berman, Amherst MA.
- Aarti Bhatt, MD University if MN.
- Aastha Ahuja, School of Education, University of Glasgow.
- Abdul Bhuiyan, New Hyde park, Ny, USA.
- Abdul Rydhan, San Jose, California, USA.
- Abdur Rahim, Round Rock, Texas, USA.
- Abha Sur, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Abhishek Shah, Evanston, IL, USA.
- Abi John, Watkins Glen, New York, USA.
- Adam Tobin, Stanford University, Menlo Park, CA.
- Adelana Akindes, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA.
- Aditee Kumthekar, Palo Alto, CA.
- Aditi Chandra, University of California, Merced.
- Aditi Dhruv, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Aditi Sen, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Aditya Guthey, Laurel, Md, USA.
- Adrita Rahman, Alliance of Progressive South Asians, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
- Afrin Fathima, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Ahamed Tharik, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Ahmed Arif, Flint, MI, USA.
- Ahmed Quddus, Sacramento, CA, USA.
- Ahsan Syed, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
- Ajantha Subramanian, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
- Ajay Skaria, minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Ajinkya Ingale, AKSC, California.
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- Chitra Vairavan, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
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- Debjani Dutta, PhD student, Los Angeles, CA..
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- Deborah Williams, Christchurch, New Zealand.
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- Deepa Iyer, Washington, DC, USA.
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- Divya Jha, University of Sheffield, UK.
- Divya Karan, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
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- Dr Sylvia Karpagam, Public health doctor.
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- Gerarda Gomez, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
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- Hindus for Human Rights, USA,.
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- Jessa Lingel, University of Pennsylvania.
- Jessica Yogini, Portland, Oregon, USA.
- Jigna Desai, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
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- Karishma Desai, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
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- Kartik Sreedhar, PhD, Washington State University, WA.
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- Madhuri Kasat Shors, MD,.
- Madhuri Shors, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
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- Maharshi dosapati, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
- Mahe Nadeem, Parker, Texas, USA.
- Mahendra Jamankar, State College, Pennsylvania, USA.
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- Mahesh Wasnik, Novi, Michigan, USA.
- Mahjabeen Syed, Palo Alto, CA, USA.
- Mahjabeen Syed, Palo Alto, California, USA.
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- Mallesh Singathi, Kendall Park, NJ, USA.
- Manan Desai, University of Michigan.
- Manan Kocher, PhD, San Francisco, Ca.
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- Manoj Malarazhagan, San Jose, CA.
- Mansoor Khan, Carol Stream, IL, USA.
- Manu Bhagavan, New York, NY, USA.
- Manuj Mukherjee.
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- Meenakshi Baddela, Austin, TX, USA.
- Meenakshi Upadhyaya, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Meenakshi, Vempaty, San Francisco, CA.
- Meenal Mamdani, QUINCY, IL, USA.
- Meenu Deswal, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Meera D, Rochester, MI, USA.
- Meera Sehgal, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Meetali Jain, Fremont, CA, USA.
- Meghana Nallajerla, San Francisco, CA.
- Mehak Sawhney, Montreal, Canada.
- Meher Dhaliwal, San Francisco, CA.
- Mehmet Bayram, Bay Point, CA.
- Meiling Gao, Oakland CA.
- Menaka Sureshkumar, Milpitas, CA, USA.
- Merle Ratner, New York, New York, USA.
- Michael Levien, Baltimore, MD, USA.
- Michael Mani, Washington, DC.
- Michael Strauss, Princeton University, NJ.
- Mili Bhatnagar, Madison, WI, USA.
- Milind Hegde, Graduate Student, Berkeley, CA.
- Milind Thokal, SPPU.
- Millie Thayer, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Minhaj Ahmed, Canton, MI, USA.
- Miray Philips, Silver Spring, MD, USA.
- Mohamed Bandali, Austin, Texas, USA.
- Mohammad Imaduddin, Fremont, CA.
- Mohammad Imran, NJ,.
- Mohammad Moiz, Flint, MI, USA.
- Mohammad Nasirul, LUISS University, Italy.
- Mohammad Sarwar, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA.
- Mohammad Siddiqi, Lombard, ILlinois, USA.
- Mohammed Jawad, Edison, NJ, USA.
- Mohammed Moizuddin, Westbury, NY, USA.
- Mohan Bhagat, College Park, MD.
- Mohan Lulasingam, New York, NY, USA.
- Mohan Vairakkannu, Morrisville, NC.
- Moina Shaiq, Fremont, California.
- Molly Crabapple, New York, NY, USA.
- Mona Chopra, New York, NU, USA
- Monali Agarwal, Seattle, WA.
- Monalisa Hota, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Monisha Bajaj, San Francisco, CA, USA.
- Moon-Kie Jung, Sunderland, MA, USA.
- Motika Anand, Chicago, US.
- Karthikeyan Shanmugam, Santa Clara, CA.
- Selvaraj, Executive Secretary, AKSC, CA.
- Mubarak Patel, Sugarland, Texas, USA.
- Mubina Qureshi, St Paul, Minnesota, USA.
- Muhammad Khan, Jersey ciyu, N J, USA.
- Muhammad M., Peoria, IL, USA.
- Mukesh Kulriya, PhD student, Los Angeles, CA..
- Mustafa Husaini, Palo Alto, CA.
- Mythri Jegathesan, San Jose, CA.
- Nadia Choudhury, Jamaica, Ny, USA.
- Nadia Purwestri, Jakarta, Indonesia.
- Nafees Farooqi, Gelandale, California, USA.
- Nagesh Rao, Manlius, NY, USA.
- Naishadh Saraiya, San Jose, CA.
- Naman Agrawal, Newark, DE, USA.
- Namratha Sastry, Chicago, IL.
- Narayana Rampilla, New York, NY, USA.
- Narendra Subramanian, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
- Nasir Ahmed, Buffalo, New York, USA.
- Nasir Chhipa, Woodbridge, Virginia, USA.
- Natasha Khanna, Los Angeles, ca, USA.
- Natasha Raheja, Cornell University.
- Natasha Raheja, Ithaca, NY, USA.
- Naveen Judah, Sheffield, UK.
- Nazia Fazili, Lomita, Ca, USA.
- Neela Vaswani, New York, NY, USA.
- Neelofer Qadir, UNC Greensboro.
- Neena Ambre, Ocala, Fl, USA.
- Neepa Majumdar, University of Pittsburgh,.
- Neeti Nair, Washington, DC, USA.
- Neeti Nayak, Harvard University, USA.
- Neha Chheda, Berkeley, CA.
- Netra Kothari, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Nicholas R, Silcox, NY, USA.
- Nick Shah, Oakland, Ca, USA.
- Nidhi Nagalia, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Nikhil Aziz, New York, NY, USA.
- Nikhil Mandalaparthy, Chicago, IL.
- Nimisha Nagalia, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Nina Asher, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Nina Asher, Minneapolis, MN.
- Nina Asher, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Nira Singh, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
- Nirmala Erevelles, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.
- Nirupama Jayaraman, PhD Student, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL.
- Nirupama Ravi, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Nirveek Bhattacharjee, Seattle, WA.
- Nishaant Choksi, IIT Gandhinagar and Seattle, WA.
- Nishant Totla, San Francisco, CA.
- Nithya Krishnamoorthy, Mountain View, California.
- Nithya Rajan, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Nithya Sambasivan, Seattle, USA..
- Nivedita Dave, Chicago, usa.
- Nivedita, University of California, Los AngelesMD.
- Noorjahan Mohiuddin, Naperville, IL, USA.
- Ojaswi Sharma, Moraga, California.
- Oviya Govindan, PhD Student, UC Irvine, CA..
- Oviya Govindan, irvine, california, USA.
- Padam Bishwokarma, Aurora, Colorado, USA.
- Paige Rebecca, Seattle, WA.
- Pallavi Rao, PhD student, Bloomington, IN.
- Pallavi Somusetty, Oakland, CA.
- Panna Iyer, Malvern, PA, USA.
- Parijat Desai, New York, NY.
- Parijat Desai, New York, NY, USA.
- Partha Chatterjee, New York, NY, USA.
- Patricia Morton, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Patricia Narayanabhatta, Worthington, Ohio, USA.
- Paul McDermott, Los Angeles, CA.
- Pavan Vaidyanathan, Bay Area, USA.
- Pavan kumar, South India,.
- Payal Kumar, MA, USA.
- Peggy Elwell, San Jose, CA.
- Peter E, Kenmore, Daly City, CA.
- Peter Van Do, Philadelphia, PA.
- Piya Chatterjee, Riverside, cAlifornia, USA.
- Piyush, Dhanuka, MD Redding, CA.
- Prabakaran Kalinathan, Detroit, Michigan.
- Prabhu Rangaraju, NJ
- Prabin Dhangada Majhi, ENFIELD, CT, USA.
- Prachi Priyam, MD, MPH, Contra Costa Regional Medical Center.
- Prad Nelluru, New York, NY, USA.
- Pragya Trivedi, University of California, Irvine.
- Prakash Kashwan Kashwan, Storrs, CT, USA.
- Prakash Nepal, Falls Church, VA, USA.
- Pramila Vasudevan, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Pramila Vasudevan, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
- Pramila Vasudevan, St, Paul, MN.
- Pramod Gaikwad, CHICAGO, IL, USA.
- Pranav Jani, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
- Pranjali Desai, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Prasad Tadepalli, Oregon State University.
- Prasad Venugopal, Ferndale, MI.
- Prasannan Parthasarathi Parthasarathi, Newton, MA, USA.
- Prashant Jaiswar, Galway, Ireland.
- Prashant Nema, Seattle, WA.
- Prashant Vasudevan, University of California Berkeley.
- Prateek Kohli, CA, USA.
- Praveen Basaviah, Bay Area, California, USA.
- Prea Persaud, UNC Charlotte.
- Preethi Srikanthan, Graduate student, NYC.
- Preeti Shekar, KPFA 94., FM Radio, Berkeley.
- Prema Kurien, Syracuse University, NY.
- Prithviram Thularam, Marlboo, New Jersey, USA.
- Priti Gulati Cox, Salina, Kansas, USA.
- Priya Chatwani, Manhattan Beach, CA.
- Priya Suman, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Priyamvada Gopal, University of Cambridge.
- Priyank Raj, Los ALtos, CA, USA.
- Priyanka Srivastava Srivastava, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Prof David Mosse, SOAS University of London, UK.
- Prof Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
- Professor G Patel, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
- Professor Meena Dhanda, University of Wolverhampton, UK.
- Promila Dhanuka, MD Redding CA, USA.
- Pugal Anbu, Pleasanton, CA, USA.
- Rachel Waterman, St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
- Radha A, San Jose, CA.
- Radhika Balakrishnan, New York, New York, USA.
- Radhika Govindrajan, University of Washington, WA.
- Rahima Begum, London, United Kingdom, USA.
- Rahmat Amanullah, Control Risks Group, London, UK.
- Raja Swamy, Knoxville, TN, USA.
- Rajeev Singha, National Health Service, UK.
- Rajeev Soneja, Arlington, MA, USA.
- Rajender Delhi Jal Board, Delhi,.
- Rajesh Gokul Sankaran, San Francisco, California, USA.
- Rajesh Sidhartha, Flushing, NY, USA.
- Rajesh Veeraraghavan, Georgetown University.
- Rajeswari Sunder Rajan, New York City, New York, USA.
- Rajita Menon, Brighton, MA, USA.
- Rajiv Krishnakumar, Research Scientist at Goldman Sachs, New York.
- Rajive Tiwari, Charlotte, NC, USA.
- Raju Rajagopal, Hindus for Human Rights-USA.
- Ram Bhat, LSE, UK.
- Ram Mahalingam, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
- Rama Mantena, University of Illinois at Chicago.
- Ramat Gan, Israel,.
- Ramesh Jay, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Ramesh Karuppusamy, Frisco TX,.
- Ramkumar Sridharan, San Jose, CA.
- Ramya Indirajith, San Ramon, CA.
- Ramya Satish, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
- Ramya Vijaya, PHILADELPHIA, PA, USA.
- Ranga Krishnan, San Jose, CA.
- Rashid Jamal, Chantilly, Va, USA.
- Rashid Shaikh, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Rashim Singh, Pearland, TX.
- Rashne Jehangir, Alliance of Progressive South Asians , University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN.
- Rathinan Periyaiah, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Ratik Asokan, New York, NY.
- Ratik Asokan, New York, NY, USA.
- Rauf Adil, Hayward, CA, USA.
- Ravi Bhagavatula, Dallas, TX,.
- Ravi Vijaya Satya, San Jose, California, USA.
- Ravi Vijaya Satya, USA,.
- Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen.
- Raza Mir, East Brunswick, USA.
- Rebekah Morin, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Reema Rajbanshi, Haverford College.
- Regina Langhout, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
- Rehan Khan, Bel Air, MD, USA.
- Rehan Khan, MD, MS Baltimore, MD.
- Renu Nahata, New York, NY, USA.
- Reshna Maniklal, Duluth, GA, USA.
- Ria DasGupta, Freehold, NJ.
- Richa Dubey, Seattle, WA.
- Richa Nagar, Saint Paul, MN, USA.
- Richa Nagar, University of Minnesota, USA.
- Richard Creswell, Lakewood, CO, USA.
- Rishabh Pankaj, Potsdam, Germany..
- Ritesh Nayak, San Jose, CA.
- Ritty Lukose, New York, NY, USA.
- Ritwajit Das, International Dalit Suolidarity Network, Copenhagen, Denmark.
- Riya Desai, CA.
- Rizwana Mohiuddinhawthorn, Hawthornwds, IL, USA.
- Rob Kelley, New York, NY, USA.
- Rob Nixon, Princeton University, NJ.
- Robert Brown, San Jose, CA.
- Robin Kelley, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Rohan Patil, Gothenburg, Sweden.
- Rohit Upadhya, Union City, CA.
- Romio Kundal, BAKERSFIELD, CA, USA.
- Ronak Soni, San Francisco, CA, CA.
- Roshan Dathathri, Austin, TX.
- Roshani Saraiya, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Rucha Chandvankar, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA.
- Rucha Chitnis, Oakland, CA.
- Rucha Modi, Chino Hills, CA.
- Ruha Benjamin, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
- Rupa Pillai, University of Pennsylvania.
- Rupa Ryan Kryzer, Minneapolis, MN.
- Rupal Oza, New York, NY, USA.
- Rupal Oza, New york, NY, USA.
- Rushaan Kumar, Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.
- Ruwi Shaikh, Oakland, CA.
- S Charusheela, Seattle, WA, USA.
- S Jamal Mustafa, Aotearoa, Morgantown, WV.
- S. Heijin Lee, New York University.
- SAVANNAH PATTERSON, ATLANTA, GA, USA.
- SHANNON DELANEY, Durham, NC, USA.
- SHREYA DESHPANDE, Fremont, California, USA.
- STELLAN VINTHAGEN, AMHERST, MA, USA.
- Saba Waheed, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Sabaresh Ragupathy, Hartford, CT
- Sabyasachi Basu, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA.
- Sadia Abbas, New York, NY, USA.
- Saeed Patel, Carlstadt, New Jersey, USA.
- Sagaree Jain, University of California, Berkeley, CA.
- Sahil Shah, SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA.
- Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary University, Halifax, NS.
- Sajee Gopal, Dallas, Texas, USA.
- Sally Tuszynski, Washington D.C.
- Salma Siddique, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich.
- Salman Shakeel, Oak Brook, IL, USA.
- Sameer Mohammed, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Samina Jain, Oakland, CA, USA.
- Samirah Boomi, San José, CA.
- Sanal Shivaprasad, Graduate Student, Ann Arbor, MI.
- Sandy Perry, San Jose, CA.
- Sangay Mishra, Drew University, New Jersey.
- Sangay Mishra, New York, New York, USA.
- Sangeeta Kamat, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
- Sangeeta Sarkar, Oakland, CA.
- Sanjana Shukla, California Institute of the Arts, CA.
- Sanjay Makhijani, Teacher, San Francisco, CA.
- Santanu Basu, East Brunswick, NJ, USA.
- Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver.
- Santosh Dass, Anti Caste Discrimination Alliance UK.
- Saptarshi Lahiri, Syracuse, NY, USA.
- Sarah Grey, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Sarah J, Jackson, University of Pennsylvania.
- Saravana Pandiyan Varadaraj, Troy, MI.
- Sareeta Amrute, University of Washington/Data & Society Research Institute.
- Sargurunathan Mohan, London, UK..
- Sarita Panchang, Baton Rouge, LA, USA.
- Sasha Sabherwal, Yale University.
- Saswathi Natta, Hyattsville, MD.
- Sathvik Nair, San Jose, CA.
- Satish Kolluri, New York, NY, USA.
- Saty Mohapatra, MIT.
- Satya Mohapatra, Cambridge, MA, USA.
- Satyel Larson, Princeton University, NJ.
- Saurav Sarkar, Brooklyn, New York, USA.
- Savi Bisnath, Maplewood, NJ, USA.
- Sayan Bhattacharya, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Sejal Babaria, Oakland, CA, USA.
- Shabana Aarzoo Aarzoo, Belmont, MA, USA.
- Shadia Walsh, San Francisco, CA.
- Shafeeq Bandagi, Bloomfield hills, Michigan, USA.
- Shafi Refai.
- Shaik Ubaid, Albany, NY, USA.
- Shailee Chaudhary, Social Activist/Writer, Nepal.
- Shailja Sharma, Chicago, IL, USA.
- Shaista Patel, California.
- Shaka McGlotten.
- Surajit Bose, East Palo Alto.
- Shalini Gupta, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Shalini Vivekanathan, NJ.
- Shamita Das Dasgupta, Montville, NJ, USA.
- Shan Khan, Dallas, TX, USA.
- Shana Sippy, Centre College/Carleton College.
- Sharath Tamalapakula, Newark, Delaware, USA.
- Sharika Thirangama, Stanford University.
- Shashank Rao, Bay Area, CA.
- Shashi Puchakayala, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Shaun Marmon, Princeton University, USA.
- Shaunna Rodrigues, New York, New York, USA.
- Sheela Lal, Dearborn, MI, USA.
- Sheetal Chhabria, New London, CT, USA.
- Shefali Chandra, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
- Sherine Hamdy, Irvine, CA, USA.
- Sheshera Mysore, Sunderland, MA, USA.
- Shikha Dilawri, PhD Student, SOAS, University of London.
- Shirley Lin Kinoshita, Cupertino CA,.
- Shishir Basant, College Station, Texas, USA.
- Shiva Chidambaram, University of Chicago.
- Shivani Kaul, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
- Shoba Rajgopal, Westfield, ma, USA.
- Shreena Niketa Gandhi, Michigan State University.
- Shreya Deshpande, Fremont CA,.
- Shreya Kothaneth, PhD, San Francisco, CA.
- Shrina Kurani, CA.
- Shruti Arya, UCSF.
- Shruti Lokre, Bombay, Maharashtra, USA.
- Shruti Mukherje, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- Shruti Mukherjee, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA.
- Shujat Khan, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA.
- Shweta Azad, Delhi, New Delhi, USA.
- Shweta Krishnan, Washington DC, District of Columbia, USA.
- Siddhant Pusdekar, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Siddharth Ghosh, Haslet, Texas, USA.
- Siddhartha Deb, New York, NY, USA.
- Sima Shakhsari, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Sirisha Naidu, Kansas City, MO, USA.
- Smita B, New York, NY, USA.
- Smita Ramnarain, Kingston, Rhode Island, USA.
- Smita Swarup, USA,.
- Smitha Radhakrishnan, Natick, MA, USA.
- Smriti Rao, Needham Heights, MA, USA.
- Sneha Annavarapu, University of Chicago.
- Sneha Ayyagari.
- Snigdha Kumar, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- Sohail Ahmed, Orland Park, IL, USA.
- Sohomjit Ray, BROOKLYN, New York, USA.
- Solidarity in Struggle, South Asians for Black Lives, Bay Area based solidarity and education group..
- Soma DattaGupta,.
- Somak Paul, Alameda, CA, USA.
- Somalee Banerjee MD, , Kaiser Permanente, CA,.
- Somnath Mukherjee, Milpitas, CA.
- Sonal Gandhi, BROOKLYN, NY, USA.
- Sonali Rahagude, Mountain View, CA..
- Sonia Arora, Port Washington, New York, USA.
- Sonia Suresh, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
- Sonny Singh, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Sonya Badigian, Carnegie Mellon Grad, Minneapolis, MN.
- Sonya Kalara, Oakland, CA.
- Sonya Mehta, OAKLAND, CA, USA.
- Sonya Mehta, Oakland, CA, leadership team member of They See Blue.
- Soumya Vavilala, Woodbridge, New Jersey, USA.
- Soundharya Chandran, California, USA.
- Sri Mirle, Liberty Tw, Southampton.
- Srikanth Jandhyala, Redwood City, CA.
- Srilata Sircar, King’, College London, UK.
- Sripad Motiram, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Sriram Mohan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
- Sriram Rajagopalan, Seattle, WA.
- Srirupa Prasad, Columbia, MO, USA.
- Sriyandass Adidass, San Jose, CA..
- Sriyandass Adidass, San Jose, California, USA.
- Srushti Totadri, Boston, MA, USA
- Steph Jordan, Ypsilanti, MI, USA.
- Stephen Rea, Denver, CO, USA.
- Steve Folmar, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
- Steven Ragnarök, Tech Workers Coalition, Bay Area, CA.
- Stuart Freeman, Brooklyn NY.
- Subhayan Sahu, University of Maryland, MD.
- Subramanian Elancheran, Sunnyvale, CA.
- Subramanya Sastry, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Sujata Warrier, Bloomfield, NJ, USA.
- Sujatha Ramni, Seattle, WA.
- Sumana Mandala, Scottsdale, AZ.
- Sumanth Inukonda, Queens, NY, USA.
- Sunaina Maira, Oakland, CA, USA.
- Sunayana Gali, Seattle, WA.
- Sunil Mehta, Saratoga, CA, co-founder and core-team member of They See Blue.
- Sunita Viswanath, Taos, NM.
- Supriya Misra, NYC, NY, USA.
- Supriya Misra, New York City, NY, USA.
- Suresh Ediga, NJ.
- Sureshkumar Karuppaiah, Milpitas, California, USA.
- Surjyendu Bhattacharjee, Pasadena, CA.
- Susan Noakes, St. Paul, MN, USA.
- Susan Rowden, Pinellas Park, Florida, USA.
- Susan Sugarman, Princeton University.
- Sushil Saroj.
- Sushrut Jadhav, University College London, UK.
- Svati Shah, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Swati Rayasam, Berkeley, CA.
- Sydney Ji, Milpitas/Berkeley, CA.
- Syed Ehtisham, South Plainfield, N.J, USA.
- Syed Hussain, Pleasanton, CA, USA.
- Syed Kamal, Norcross, GA, USA.
- Syed Salman Qadri, Santa Clara, CA.
- Tahil Sharma, Claremont, CA.
- Tanay Balantrapu, Washington, DC, USA.
- Tanvi Avasthi, Baltimore, MD.
- Tapoja Chaudhuri, Seattle University, Seattle, USA.
- Tara Bhagat, Washington DC.
- Tatiana Chaterji, Oakland, CA.
- Teresa Kotturan, New York, NY, USA.
- Thazul Anaam PM, Trabuco Canyon, CA.
- Therese Soosairaj, Monroe, New York, USA.
- Thillai Kumaran, San Jose, CA.
- Thiru Palanisamy, CA,.
- Todd Wolfson, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
- Tom O’Keefe, New York, NY.
- Tommy McPhee, Houston, Texas, USA.
- Toni Moore, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
- Trineice Robinson-Martin, Princeton University, NJ.
- Tsukina Blessing, Seattle, Washington, USA.
- Udai Bhan Kashyap, Columbus, NJ, USA.
- Ujjayini Sikha, Cupertino, CA.
- Uma Raghavan, Seattle, WA.
- Uma savanoor, Toledo, OH.
- Umar Ahmed, San Jose, CA, USA.
- Usha Iyer, Stanford University, CA.
- Utkarsh J, San Jose, CA.
- VV Ganeshananthan, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Vamsi Vakulabharanam, Amherst, MA, USA.
- Varun Khanna, Swarthmore College.
- Vasanth Thanigaivelu, Derby, U.K..
- Vasudhaa Narayanan, San Francisco, CA.
- Vasuki Narasimha Swamy, PhD, Santa Clara, CA.
- Vasuki Nesiah, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
- Vasundhara Gautam, Speech Recognition Engineer, Vancouver, Canada.
- Veena Calambur, Princeton NJ,.
- Veena Oldenburg, New York, New York, USA.
- Veena Sankaranarayanan, Empyrean Benefit Solutions, San Francisco, CA.
- Venkata Vijay, San Francisco, CA.
- Vidhya Shanker, Alliance of Progressive South Asians (MN).
- Vidya Mantrala, Washington, DC, USA.
- Vidya Palaniswamy, San Jose, CA.
- Vidya Sekhar, Seattle, WA.
- Vijayan Sundararaj, TX,.
- Vijayendra Kadalabal, Bangalore (TISS Alumni, GIPE Alumni, Chevening Alumni).
- Vinod Mubayi, Miller Place, NY, USA.
- Vinod Mubayi, New York, NY, USA.
- Vinodkumar Saranathan, Yale-NUS, Singapore.
- Vipin K, UCLA.
- Virajita Singh, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- Viresh Ratnakar, Los Altos, CA.
- Virgilio Urbina Lazardi, NY, USA.
- Vishakha Ashtaputre, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- Vishal Jamkar, Minnesota
- Vivek Mittal, Los Angeles, California, USA.
- Vivekanandan S, Novi.
- Waqas Syed, North American Indian Muslim Association.
- William Elison, University of California, Santa Barbara.
- Willow Ozburn, Norcross, GA, USA.
- Winifred Poster, Washington University, St, Louis.
- Yajnaseni Dutta, Chicago, IL.
- Yavuz Yasar Yasar, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
- Yinan (Nancy, Wang, Grad Student, Ann Arbor.
- Yogesh Varhadd, Kingston, PA, USA.
- Yunus Patel, Dearborn, Michigan, USA.
- Yuwei Pan, NY, USA.
- Zahid Chaudhary, Princeton University.
- Zahir Adil, Billerica, MA, USA.
- Zain Sharma, Herndon, Va, USA.
- Zakia Zaman, Lombard, Il, USA.
- Zeel Patel, Shingle Springs, CA.
- abhilasha joshi, postdoctoral fellow, UC San Francisco, CA.
- dipankar mukherjee.
- fasiuddin mohammed, Irving, TX, USA.
- khan hasan, seattle, wa, USA.
- nishu raman, san ramon, ca, USA.
- romi mahajan, Bellevue, WA, USA.
- zillah eisenstein, ithaca, new york, USA.
- 1 Dalit means ‘crushed or broken’ in Marathi, an Indian language.
- 2 https://siliconvalleyindicators.org/data/people/talent-flows-diversity/tech-talent/share-of-residents-in-technical-occupations-with-a-bachelors- degree-or-higher-by-place-of-origin/
- 3 California Department of Fair Employment and Housing Vs Cisco Systems, Inc., et al. Civil Rights Complaint – Employment Discrimination.