Committees
SAJA is governed by a board of directors and operates without any paid staff, primarily through the help of volunteers who donate their time
and effort to SAJA's activities.
Day-to-day functions of SAJA are carried out through committees in charge of specific organizational and functional areas, constituted by
the board of directors. These committees work in close cooperation with the Executive Committee which is made up of the president, vice
president, administrator, secretary and treasurer. Each committee must be chaired by a Board member and may include Board members as well as
other persons who are members of SAJA.
If you would like to be volunteer for a committee, write to the committee chairs below, cc'ing saja [at] columbia [dot] edu
As of January 22, 2005, eleven committees are constituted, as follows:
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Deepti Hajela (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, John Laxmi, Monika Mathur and Sree Sreenivasan.
AWARDS COMMITTEE
Sandeep Junnarkar (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, Deepti Hajela, Sree Sreenivasan, Vandana Sinha, Anita Shah, Mitra Kalita and
Nina Mehta
CHAPTERS COMMITTEE
Aseem Chhabra (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, Deepti Hajela, Vandana Sinha, Sree Sreenivasan, Julie Patel and Monica Mehta
CONVENTION COMMITTEE
Vikas Bajaj (Chair)
Deepti Hajela, Sandeep Junnarkar, John Laxmi, Monika Mathur, Sree Sreenivasan,
Aparna Mukherjee, Mitra Kalita and Melanie Huff
FINANCE & FUNDRAISING COMMITTEE
Sree Sreenivasan (Chair)
Deepti Hajela, John Laxmi, Monika Mathur and Aparna Mukherjee
GOVERNANCE COMMITTEE
Sree Sreenivasan (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, Deepti Hajela, Monika Mathur, John Laxmi, Vandana Sinha and Nina Mehta
MEDIAWATCH COMMITTEE
Sree Sreenivasan (Chair)
Deepti Hajela, John Laxmi and Vandana Sinha
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Vandana Sinha (Chair)
Deepti Hajela, John Laxmi, Aparna Mukkherjee, Anita Shah, and Sree Sreenivasan
PUBLICATIONS/WEBSITE COMMITTEE
Sree Sreenivasan (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, Sandeep Junnarkar, John Laxmi and Jigsha Desai
STUDENT AFFAIRS & SCHOLARSHIP COMMITTEE
Aparna Mukherjee (Chair)
Sandeep Junnarkar, Sree Sreenivasan and Mitra Kalita
SPECIAL PROGRAMS COMMITTEE
Sandeep Junnarkar (Chair)
Vikas Bajaj, Aseem Chhabra, Deepti Hajela, John Laxmi, Sree Sreenivasan, Suketu Mehta
[Note: The Special Programs Committee is responsible for new programs,
such as the proposed SAJA Reporting Fellowship Project.]