S. Mitra Kalita is co-founder and CEO of URL Media, a network of Black- and Brown-owned media organizations sharing content, distribution, and revenues. She also co-founded and publishes Epicenter-NYC, a newsletter launched to help New Yorkers get through the pandemic, and writes a column for Fortune. Previously, Kalita was a senior vice president at CNN Digital, overseeing the national news, breaking news, programming, opinion, and features teams. Before that, she was managing editor for editorial strategy at the Los Angeles Times. Kalita authored Suburban Sahibs: Three Immigrant Families and Their Passage from India to America and My Two Indias: a Journey to the End of Opportunities. She is a member of The Philadelphia Inquirer’s board of directors.
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