Pride of America honour for two Indian American women |
`Pride of America Award` is given for the past 19 years to felicitate and honour `Great Immigrants of America` by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Manjusha P. Kulkarni and Priyamvada Natarajan are 2 Indian American women have won the award for 2025 among 20 immigrants from 16 countries. Manjusha Kulkarni, born in India and raised in the US, is the Executive Director for Equity Alliance of American Association of Physicians from India (AAPI) and also represents 1.6 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Los Angeles County in California state. Manju is also the Co-Founder of Stop AAPI Hate, the US`s largest centre for addressing anti-AAPI hate incidents. She has been recognized on the prestigious TIME100 Most Influential People in the World. She also bagged the 2024 James Irvine Leadership Award. Priyamvada (Priya) was born in Tamil Nadu and completed higher education in the US to be hailed among the most respected astrophysicists in the world.
Priya is professor of astronomy and physics at Yale University and lauded for pioneering research on dark matter, dark energy, and black holes. Among her many prestigious honours are the Emeline Bigelow Conland Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the 2025 Dannie Heineman Prize. She was also featured among Time magazine`s 100 most influential people in the world. In 2024, 4 Indian-origin achievers received the `Pride of America` award: Nobel Laureate Abhijit Banerjee, public health expert Dr. Ashish Kumar Jha, social entrepreneur Premal Shah, and interfaith leader Eboo Patel. Earlier recipients are: Gita Gopinath, former chief economist of IMF; Kamlesh Lulla, a renowned NASA scientist; Dr Vivek Murthy, a former US surgeon general; Siddhartha Mukherjee, a Pulitzer Prize winner; Adobe Chief Santanu Narayen, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai.
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