Saira Sameera Rao was born on June 12,1974 and is an American political activist, author, publisher, and former Wall Street lawyer and television producer.
15 Facts About Saira Rao
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Saira Rao is the co-founder of Race2Dinner, In This Together Media, and Haven, and came to greater prominence in 2018 when she ran for Congress, losing out to incumbent Democrat Diana DeGette in the primary.
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Saira Rao received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Virginia in 1996 and went on to work as a journalist and television producer for CBS affiliate WUSA in Washington DC and Fox News affiliate WSVN in Miami.
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Saira Rao was then an associate in corporate law at Cleary Gottlieb.
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Saira Rao began writing it while working at Cleary Gottlieb, but left the firm in November 2006 after they learned the topic of the book.
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Saira Rao had said that her second book, a memoir called Broken News, about "her experience with racism in the new media", was to be published in spring 2020.
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Saira Rao operates a mixed model for acquiring titles, sometimes receiving submissions and sometimes commissioning authors to write stories based on ideas generated in-house.
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In 2018 Saira Rao ran against Representative Diana DeGette in the Democratic primary for Colorado's 1st congressional district.
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Saira Rao said that the threats she received in response made her family unsafe and that she had to temporarily leave Colorado.
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Subsequently, Saira Rao felt disillusioned by the party leadership, which she felt had failed to respond properly or to listen to the concerns of non-white women.
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Saira Rao said afterwards that she was "mortified" in retrospect by her support of Clinton, but said that it was not the party she was breaking up with, as she'd previously put it, but rather the "Democratic Party establishment".
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Saira Rao claimed that "the vast majority of white Americans are pro-genocide", as is the CAA itself, for failing to condemn what she alleges is the ongoing genocide of Palestinians.
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Jackson and Saira Rao wrote a book together based on their experience with Race2Dinner.
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In 2020, Rao co-founded "Haven" together with political organiser Candice Fortin and academic Tamara L Lee.
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Saira Rao is married to businessman Shiv Govindan, and has two children; she lives in Country Club, Denver, Colorado.