Co-Founder
Padma Rangaswamy has a Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Chicago and is an historian and author. Among her major publications are Namasté America: Indian Immigrants in an American Metropolis (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000), a comprehensive study of Asian Indian immigration, Indian Americans (The New Immigrant Series, Chelsea House, 2007), Asian Indians of Chicago (Arcadia Publishing, 2003), and several entries to Asian American encyclopedias and professional journals.