Anjali Enjetis (Southbound) activism

Published: Nov. 7, 2021, 4 a.m.

b'\\u201cWriting isn\\u2019t doing the work of activism. Maybe it opens people\\u2019s minds, but art alone isn\\u2019t going to cut it.\\u201d\\nAnjali Enjeti is a lot of things - literally. A southerner from Michigan who\\u2019s part Indian, part Austrian, part Puerto Rican. A former attorney, journalist, teacher, mother, activist and author. Her TWO recently published books \\u2014\\xa0Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, AND The Parted Earth \\u2014 will give you pause and wanting to learn more. Southbound unpacks her personal American history and perspective, while The Parted Earth reveals thru fiction the troubled history of India\\u2019s origins and legacy of Partition. Anjali\\u2019s writing has appeared in The Oxford American, Harper\\u2019s Bazaar, USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of the Georgia chapter of They See Blue, an organization for South Asian Democrats. A creative writing teacher at Reinhardt University, and recently nominated to Good Morning America\\u2019s 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Inspiration List - she once wrote Oprah to tell her she didn\\u2019t agree with her, and was invited on for a chat. Anjali\\u2019s got (informed) opinions and beliefs, and is not afraid to roll up her sleeves to make change happen....something she challenges more of us to do every day.\\nLEARN ABOUT ANJALI\\n\\nanjalienjeti.com\\n\\n\\ntwitter.com/AnjaliEnjeti // instagram.com/AnjaliEnjeti\\n\\n\\ngoodreads.com/author/show/20549586.Anjali_Enjeti\\n\\nMENTIONS\\n\\nFILM: Mississippi Masala (1991) - imdb.com/title/tt0102456\\n\\n\\nPERSON: Pauli Murray (activist) - wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli_Murray\\n\\n\\n\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'