Archana Panda

Archana Panda is a renowned poet, singer and dancer in the Indo-American community. She also is a fantastic anchor and has been a successful M.C for many popular events including Diwali Mela in Sunnyvale Hindu temple 2007, Induz Carnivale, Kavi Sammelans etc. Archana anchored many episodes of the successful T.V show SargamTV.

Profession

Archana is a software engineer -a front end web developer. She has worked as a consultant for companies like Yahoo Inc., eBay, Intuit, Xilinx, National Semiconductor etc. Presently, she is working for Tacit Software.
She worked as a credentialed public school teacher in Fremont Unified school district for 4 years. She also was a eigth grade science teacher with Campbell Union school district for one year.
Archana volunteers to teach Hindi at various institutes in the bay area like I.C.C. (India Community center), Vidyabharti etc.

Publications

Archana's first poetry book "Srijani" was launched at the Vishwa Hindi sammelan, New York on March 2007. You can receive a copy of the same by writing to panda_archana@yahoo.com

Education

Archana accomplished her Electrical Engineering degree from I.G.I.T Sarang, Orissa- India. She completed her M.B.A in Information Technology from S.P.jain Institute of Management, Bombay, India. Archana holds a clear professional teaching credential from San Jose State University.

Family

Archana lives at Santa Clara, California with her husband- Shiv Pachori and three children-Priya, Luv and Kush. She acknowledges her husband Shiv, her father- Dr.P.Panda, mom-Sailabala Panda, brother-Dr.D.P.Panda and sister-Dr.Vandana Panda(Goel) for all her laurels.