Advisory Boards

Community Advisory Board

Uka Solanki, President and CEO, Big Saver Foods, Chair
S. Balasubramaniam, President-Elect, American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin
M. L. Bhaumik, President, Heliotronics Inc
Hamilton Brewart, CEO, Hamilton Brewart Insurance
Matthew Chandy, Branch Manager (Artesia), State Bank of India
Narendra Chudasama, Community Leader
Navreet Chugh, Managing Partner, The Chugh Firm; Founding Member, TiE
Firoze Dordi, President, Maazda Travel
Navin Doshi, Businessman; Community Leader
Indra Gandhi, Attorney at Law
Yogesh Goradia, Businessman; Community Leader
Vikram Kamdar, Professor of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center; Community Leader
Ashok Madan, Director and Regional Vice President, National Federation of Indian Associations
Manilal Mehta, Jain Center of Southern California
B. U. Patel, Founder and Vice Chairman of the Board, Tarsadia Hotels
Chatur Patel, Community Leader
Ganpat Patel, Former CEO, Cherokee International
Kumar Patel, Professor of Physics; Former Vice Chancellor for Research, UCLA
Shela Patel, Former Graduate Advisor, Department of History, UCLA; Community Leader
Maqbool Qadri, President, Indian Muslim Association
Krishna Reddy, Founder and President, Indian-American Friendship Council
Shezad Rokerya, President, Interlink Equity Capital
Mohinder Sambhi, Emeritus Professor, UCLA School of Medicine
Bhanu SarDesai, Community Leader; Member, Sardar Patel Award Charter Member
D. R. SarDesai, Emeritus Professor of History, UCLA
Abdulgani Shaikh, Boeing (Long Beach); Community Leader
Inder Singh, President, Global Organization of Peoples of Indian Origin
Nalini Solanki, Vice President, Big Saver Foods
Arun Srivastava, Country Coordinator for India, Sister Cities International

Academic Advisory Board

Shiva Bajpai, Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Northridge
Paramita Bandyopadhyay, Assistant Professor of Finance, CSULB
Bipasha Baruah, Assistant Professor of Geography; Associate Director, Yadunandan Center for India Studies, CSULB
Christopher Chapple, Navin and Pratima Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology, Loyola Marymount University
Pravina Cooper, Lecturer of Comparative World Literature and Classics, CSULB
Simon George, Emeritus Professor of Physics, CSULB
Bradley Hawkins, Lecturer of Religious Studies, CSULB
Phyllis Herman, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, California State University, Northridge
Ali Igmen, Assistant Professor of History, CSULB
Arnold P. Kaminsky, Professor of Asian Studies and History; Director, Yadunandan Center for India Studies, CSULB

Tim Keirn, Sr. Lecturer of History; Advisor, Single Subject Credential Program, CSULB
Mohammad Khan, Interim Dean, College of Business Administration, CSULB
Aparna Nayak-Guercio, Assistant Professor of Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures, CSULB
Brenda Ness, Professor of History, Santa Monica College
Sophia Pandya, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, CSULB
Jyotsna Pattnaik, Professor of Teacher Education, CSULB
Paul Perret, Lecturer of Geography, CSULB
Shireen Pavri, Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Administration, and Counseling, CSULB
Namika Raby, Lecturer of Anthropology, CSULB
Nalini Rao, Professor of Art History, Soka University
D. R. SarDesai, Emeritus Professor of History, UCLA
Seymour Scheinberg, Emeritus Professor of History, California State University, Fullerton
Tara Sethia, Professor of History; Director, Ahimsa Center, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Praveen Soni, Professor of Marketing, CSULB
Anil Srivastava, Visiting Scholar, CSULB; CTIC Corporation, Maryland
Teri S. Yamada, Professor of Comparative World Literature and Classics, CSULB

Ex Officio:

Uka Solanki, Chair, Yadunandan Center for India Studies Community Advisory Board
Gerry Riposa, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, CSULB
Dorothy Abrahamse, Coordinator, CSU-India Project