EP 114: Anjali Enjeti’s (Southbound) activism

“Writing isn’t doing the work of activism.
Maybe it opens people’s minds, but art alone isn’t going to cut it.”

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Anjali Enjeti is a lot of things - literally. A southerner from Michigan who’s part Indian, part Austrian, part Puerto Rican. A former attorney, journalist, teacher, mother, activist, and author. Her TWO recently published books —  Southbound: Essays on Identity, Inheritance, and Social Change, AND The Parted Earth — will give you pause and want to learn more. Southbound unpacks her personal American history and perspective, while The Parted Earth reveals thru fiction the troubled history of India’s origins and legacy of Partition. Anjali’s writing has appeared in The Oxford American, Harper’s Bazaar, USA Today, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Washington Post, and elsewhere. She is the co-founder of the Georgia chapter of They See Blue, an organization for South Asian Democrats. A creative writing teacher at Reinhardt University, and recently nominated to Good Morning America’s 2021 Asian American and Pacific Islander Inspiration List - she once wrote Oprah to tell her she didn’t agree with her and was invited on for a chat. Anjali’s got (informed) opinions and beliefs and is not afraid to roll up her sleeves to make change happen....something she challenges more of us to do every day. 

LEARN ABOUT ANJALI
WEBSITE: anjalienjeti.com
SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter / Instagram
BOOKS: goodreads.com/author/show/20549586.Anjali_Enjeti

MENTIONS
FILM: Mississippi Masala (1991)
PERSON: Pauli Murray (activist)