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Indira
S. Somani
Indira Somani was born in Pittsburgh, Pa., but raised
in Springfield, Ill. She was named after the former Prime Minister
of India, Indira Gandhi.
Somani is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Journalism at the University
of Maryland. Prior to that she went to Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. and Northwestern's
Medill School of Journalism, Evanston, Ill. While many of her friends Indian friends were pursuing a career in medicine or engineering, Somani loved to write and wanted to pursue a career in journalism.
In her junior year of college, she interned with the CBS owned and
operated station, WBBM-TV in Chicago. This internship sparked
her interest in broadcast journalism, and her professional desire
to create diversity in newsrooms. Somani's experience with
WBBM-TV also made her understand the value of internships, and she
continues to place her own students in valuable internships.
Somani's other interests include the movies, documentary films,
tennis and biking.
Somani's parents are from India and migrated to the United States in the early 60s. Somani's mother is Bengali from Calcutta, and her father is Marwardi from Rajasthan. She also has one sister who is an engineer with Lockheed Martin.
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