Rekha Basu
Board Of Advisor
Born in India and raised globally because of her parents’ United Nations careers, Rekha Basu attended middle and high school in New York. With an MS in journalism from Columbia University, an MA in political economy from Goddard-Cambridge Graduate School, a BA in sociology from Brandeis University and an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Grinnell College, she has been an opinion writer for more than three decades. Her writings focus on social, economic and racial justice and women’s rights. They have appeared in newspapers in all but two U.S. states, including The Des Moines Register, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today and The International Herald-Tribune. She has made guest appearances on network television with Tom Brokaw, Rachel Maddow, Gwen Ifill, and CNN International’s Richard Quest. She has been featured on C-SPAN Book TV as the author of “Finding Her Voice,” a compilation of her Register columns on women.
She is proud to serve on the advisory board of the visionary and proactive Love for Red, which boldly stepped into a space where few others would go — to strip the stigma from menstruation and fight period poverty at every level.