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About the partner
Priya is a fiction writer who lives in Pune, Goa, and New York with an entrepreneur husband and two tiny but ferocious dogs. Priya graduated with an MFA in Creative Writing from Goddard College in Vermont in 2017 after a twenty-two year career in the corporate world.
Her corporate career began in the United States where she worked for several telecommunications majors. She continued on the telecommunications track in India from 2004 to 2015, when she decided to go back to school and take up writing.
Priya is the author of “Ladies’ Tailor”, a novel published by Harper Collins India in 2022. She has written and published several short stories: “An Affair, In Indian Ruminations”, “The Tattoo Artist in Live Encounters”, “Daughters’ Revenge” with Kitaab and “The Storyteller” with Muse India.
My Journey at SVP
I joined SVP earlier this year, in the thick of Covid. During the second wave, my husband and I, eager to do something to help, began an initiative we called VaxAll. The purpose was to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible to help stave off severe symptoms of Covid and to possibly avoid a third wave. This initiative is what got us thinking more about philanthropy and giving. Joining SVP is our opportunity to both learn about giving and to give – both financially and of our experience.
Learning about organizations that have a social context, the perseverance and grit of their founders and the means and methods they have used to make a difference are a terrific learning experience for me.
SVP’s focus on both teaching and learning from such entities is refreshing and humbling. Most of all, I truly appreciate SVP’s mission of awakening the philanthropist in all of us.