Jaya Padmanabhan
American Community Media (ACoM), the first and largest association of ethnic news outlets nationwide, announced Jaya Padmanabhan as its new executive director, effective Feb. 1.
Padmanabhan—who left a successful role as a software engineer in Silicon Valley to pursue her passion of journalism—brings over a decade of dedicated experience in the ethnic media sector.
She served as executive editor of India Currents, the oldest and largest Indian-American magazine on the West Coast, then as a biweekly columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; and most recently as project manager of the University of Southern California Center for Health Care Journalism’s Ethnic Media Collaborative project.
“Ethnic media teaches me a different way of understanding news, documenting the intimate life of communities and amplifying voices largely unheard and unseen in the public space. I learned the enduring power of news outlets that provide a collective voice for their communities—the ‘we’ rather than the ‘I’ of journalism.”
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