Advisory Council Member: Rathi Raja

Rathi Raja is the President of Arsha Vedanta Center of Long Island and the Executive Director of Young Indian Culture Group.  She has been featured extensively on PBS in their ‘Asian Indians in America’ and in The New York Times.  She is an active member of the Herricks Clergy Coalition, an Interfaith group based in New Hyde Park, engaging in educating through programs in the community, schools and colleges. She is a Hindu Spiritual teacher for the past 17 years, sharing the teachings of the Vedic vision with youth and adults. She is an ethnographer and storyteller of Asian Indian heritage, and a Founding Trustee of Young Indian Culture Group, Inc.  Founded in 1993, this not-for-profit institution for children and adults of Asian Indian origin, seeks to preserve and teach the next generation in Asian Indian cultural forms and traditions, through classes, festivals, and special events.  She conducts numerous outreach programs in schools in Nassau and Suffolk counties involving arts, linguistics and culture of India, and the comprehensive ‘Hindu Culture’ and ‘The South Asian Subcontinent’ courses for teachers. Rathi served as a panel member of the New York State Council on the Arts for 2003-2005, was named the Long Island Traditions' Honoree of the Year,  and received the Nassau County Community Service Award in 2000. She has a BS in Mathematics and a MBA in Information Sciences and Finance.

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