27/03/2021
Women’s History Month is not over yet.
On this Friday night, TWWC celebrates Sumi Das, a woman who has made a career servicing others in the trenches and who has helped others make a difference in their communities.
Sumi is a Communications Manager at Facebook where she leads storytelling for the Social Impact team, sharing the inspiring work of people making a difference in their communities.
Sumi Das is also an experienced broadcast journalist, producer and storyteller with a creative eye. She contributed feature stories for the BBC technology program Click. Her stories focused on high-impact or breakthrough technology and innovations and reach a global audience. Previously, she filed television, web and radio reports for CBS, including the popular technology site, CNET. She received a Neal business journalism award for her reporting and producing work on the "Future of..." video series for CBS Interactive.
Das also served as a national correspondent for CNN, based in Washington, DC. While at CNN, she provided breaking news coverage. Das reported live from New Orleans during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and contributed to CNN's coverage of the disaster, which earned the network a Peabody. She covered the launch of Space Shuttle Discovery, U.S. elections and the Academy Awards.
Prior to that, Das worked as a correspondent for MSNBC covering breaking news for the cable news channel. She spent 5 years at the cable network TechTV, as both a producer and host for Fresh Gear, a weekly program focusing on the latest technology gadgets and developments. Das also anchored and reported for TechLive, TechTV’s live daily newscast. For her work on Fresh Gear, Das was nominated for 2 Northern California Emmy Awards.
When she’s not writing or experimenting with a new tech gadget, she enjoys satisfying her wanderlust, snowboarding, cooking, dancing and volunteering.
Below is a compilation of her work throughout the years.
Thank you for your service, Sumi Das.
A look at some of the stories I covered as a national correspondent for CNN. I was based 2 blocks from the White House in Washington, D.C., but always had a go-bag…