Dr. Tanushree Ghosh (Ph. D. Cornell University, Chemistry) is Director at Intel Corp., a social activist, and an author. Her blog posts, op-eds, poems, and stories are her efforts to provoke thoughts, especially towards issues concerning social justice. She is a contributor (past and present) to several popular e-zines incl. The Huffington Post US (where her first post on returning to India as the mother of a daughter went viral and was picked up by Yahoo News and where she subsequently authored many successful op-eds on gender, Syria war, mental health, the western media’s coverage of the Brazil Olympic and so on), The Logical Indian, Youth Ki Awaaz, Tribune India, Women’s Web, Thrive Global, and Cafe Dissensus (where she hosted her own segment on social satire titled Black Light). Her literary resume also includes poems and stories featured in national and international magazines (Words Pauses and Noises, UK; TUCK, Glimmer Train Honorable mention) as well as inclusion in over a dozen anthologies such as Defiant Dreams (Oprah 2016 reading list placeholder) and The Best Asian Short Stories 2017 (published out of Singapore by Kitaab). Her first single author book is From An-Other Land (Readomania Publishing, India, 2018). A short story collection dealing with immigrants and acculturation, the work was featured on NPR USA. Beyond #MeToo (Sage Publications, 2022) is her second single author work. She is the founder and director of Her Rights Inc. a non-profit committed to furthering the cause of gender equality. She frequently speaks on human rights, social justice, advancement, leadership, and diversity and inclusion in corporate and non-profits panels. In 2019, she was a panelist at Times Lit Bangalore for sessions on gender and diaspora. She has been featured on several international podcasts (including the prestigious Women In Manufacturing from Jacket Media) and in the Fall 2021 Diversity Woman Magazine Power 100 list of 100 extraordinary women. She was a winner of the Orange Flower Award (2021) for her short story in the LGBTQ category and was the Winner of Intel’s Global Diversity and Inclusion Advocate of the year for Greater America (2022). In 2024, she is a recipient of the prestigious Laadli Media Awards in journalism. Her works have also been nominated for several other social category awards in India. She is active in several technology leadership councils and chairs Alumni Engagement for pan-IIT NRI chapter in Southern California (she is an IIT Kanpur alumna). She is mother to an 11-year-old and lives in Phoenix, AZ.