Mrittika Sen

Mrittika was born and raised in Calcutta, India, and has lived in The Netherlands, Egypt, and The United Arab Emirates, before moving to the United States in 2007. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, two Master's Degrees in Communication (The Ohio State University) and English (Jadavpur University, India), and a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in English Literature (Jadavpur University, India). Her sixteen years of experience has spanned nonprofit (institutional) fundraising, academic research, media, and publishing. Mrittika lives in Skillman, New Jersey, with her husband and son. Her infant daughter passed away in 2013. When she is not researching or writing, Mrittika creates jewelry with stones and metal and has her own line called Earth-Strings.