Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee
PROGRAM MANAGER
Sushmita Jaya Mukherjee is a Chicago-based manager for the education team at the Pulitzer Center. In her previous job, she managed creative writing programs for Chicago Public School students, focusing on short-form memoir and novel-length fiction.
She has worked in education for at least 10 years, beginning her career as a special education teacher in Compton, California.
Mukherjee holds a bachelor's in dramatic writing from New York University, a master's in film theory from Trinity College Dublin, and a master's in special education from Loyola Marymount University.
