User Profile: Samhita

Samhita Mukhopadhyay, Editor

Samhita is a 30 year old writer and activist who just moved from San Francisco to upstate NY for self torture and to write a book. She is the web manager at the Center for Media Justice an Oakland based org that provides media strategy and action for the movement. She has a Bachelors degree in Sociology and Women's Studies from SUNY Albany and a Masters in Women's Studies from San Francisco State (or would have it if she finished her thesis which is focused on blogging, gender, social networking technology and activism). She is on the advisory board at Wiretap Magazine. She has written for New American Media, Wiretap, Colorlines, the Nation and the American Prospect. Samhita's passions include writing, trans-national feminisms, veganism, theories of knowledge production, electronic music and media.