HOPE USA are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr.Raili Roy as HOPE USA Executive Director and Fundraising Officer.
Raili is a scholar in Gender Studies and Comparative Women’s history, and has a Ph.D. in Women and Gender Studies. She has researched extensively on different community-based organizations working on women’s empowerment in Kolkata and in the United States. She was Associate Director and Lecturer of South Asia Center at University of Pennsylvania and currently is a teaching fellow at Rutgers University in New Jersey. Raili is trained in classical Indian dance and leads a virtual group for women promoting empowerment through the arts.
Raili has also organized successful fundraising events for different local and international organizations including Overlook Hospitals (Summit NJ); NIH (UK), Anandam (Kolkata) and DMSC (Kolkata).
Raili’s daughter Enika, undertook a very successful fundraising event for HOPE earlier this year as part of her “arangetram” where she raised in excess of $3,500 for HOPE USA.
Raili is contactable on raili@hopefoundationusa.com and on + 1 (646) 668-6494 and she looks forward to hearing from you.
Welcome Raili!