Date: Time Period: 2000 - 2017; 2016-10-25; Interview recorded: October 25 2016Material: Digital audio recording made using Sony PCM Recorder M10 digital recorder and Abode Soundbooth.Dimension:
Total running time: 0:42:15
Creator: Luna Ranjit interviewed by Meera NairIdentifier: aql:22103 ranjit-luna-full
Description: Luna Ranjit, a Nepali-American and Executive Director of Adhikaar, a Nepali nonprofit, has lived for 18 years in New York, including the last 10 years in Jackson Heights, Queens. As she ends her successful and pioneering career with Adhikaar, she looks back on her life from her childhood and schooling in Nepal, further education at Grinnell College, Iowa and at Princeton, to her political awakening and her social justice work. She reflects on her tenure as founder and leader of one of America's biggest Nepali non-profits and her struggles to get the organization off the ground. She also reflects on the changing face of the Nepali community, Queens and her own relationship both to America and Nepal, and looks to the future of the community and her own.
Date : Time Period: 2000 - 2017; 2016-10-25; Interview recorded: October 25 2016
Summary/Description : Luna Ranjit, a Nepali-American and Executive Director of Adhikaar, a Nepali nonprofit, has lived for 18 years in New York, including the last 10 years in Jackson Heights, Queens. As she ends her successful and pioneering career with Adhikaar, she looks back on her life from her childhood and schooling in Nepal, further education at Grinnell College, Iowa and at Princeton, to her political awakening and her social justice work. She reflects on her tenure as founder and leader of one of America's biggest Nepali non-profits and her struggles to get the organization off the ground. She also reflects on the changing face of the Nepali community, Queens and her own relationship both to America and Nepal, and looks to the future of the community and her own.
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