Nirav Desai is founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Subcontinental: The Journal of South Asian American Public Affairs (www.thesubcontinental.org), which published it's first issue in Spring 2003. He has worked on extensive investigations of affirmative action, immigration, globalization, and health care.

He has worked as a consultant for various companies over the past eight years, but currently as a Senior Consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Additionally, he served as Chief Technology Officer of WordSoundAction, a non-profit arts organization that develops integrated human networks through performance art in new immigrant communities. During his studies, he served as Senior Editor of Ex Nihilo, the undergraduate philosophy journal for the University of Texas at Austin for one year and was an Editor for three years before that.

He received a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin where he graduated with honors. He currently lives in Washington, DC.

You can reach Nirav Desai at niravdesai@subcontinental.org.