About me
Anjana Nagarajan-Butaney is a journalist at India Currents and Founder/Producer at desicollective.media where she reports on the South Asians diaspora, covering the social and cultural impact of issues like immigration, health, social justice, politics, census, elections, technology and the arts.
Currently, she is a member of the USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism 2026 Ethnic Media Collaborative “Healing California.” In 2024, she was a Journalists in Aging fellow at the Gerontological Society of America, delving into menopause. Anjana is a 2021 and 2022 Fellow of USC Annenberg’s Center for Health Journalism, investigating domestic violence in the South Asian community. She also won a grant from Altavoz Labs to report on aging in the home in 2022. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.
She has received Journalistic Excellence awards from the San Francisco Press Club and from California News Publishers Association for In-Depth Reporting. Her stories have appeared on India Currents, Palabra, San Diego Herald-Tribune, Indiaspora and American Kahani.
Having started her career as an electrical engineer, Anjana revels in the challenge of using both her analytical and creative parts of her brain to create impactful, data driven, and engaging content. She holds a B.S. and M.S. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech.
