Joya dass biography of christopher

Joya Dass is a first generation South Asian, born to immigrant parents who came from Calcutta and Myanmar. Growing up in Pennsylvania, she learned about bharatnatyam dance and making poori. She also learned that women didn’t have a voice or decision-making power. Ironically, today she makes her living with her voice as a television anchor. She has spent 15 years interviewing Fortune 500 CEOs and is now working to empower South Asian women entrepreneurs to overcome cultural roadblocks and help them realize their personal and professional self.

Joya Dass – Television anchor, public speaker, co-founder of LadyDrinks, executive director of South Asian International Film Festival. Tell us more about yourself and what you do?  What experiences most shaped who you are today?
I wear many hats, but today I inhabit three main avatars: I am a television anchor. I have delivered business news from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange for the last 15 years of my career for CNN,