Aarti Virani

Aarti Virani, assistant director, was a part-time faculty member at the J-School and worked with Prof. Ari Goldman, traveling for the Covering Religion class in 2015. She has worked as a writer and editor for over 15 years. Her writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, CNN.com, Vogue India, where she was a contributing editor and Travel + Leisure, among other publications. Most recently, Aarti was a blog editor at OpenTable, where she coached a team of writers to develop content that reflected the diversity of cuisines and restaurant ownership found in various communities across America.

Born and raised in Kobe, Japan, Aarti discovered her passion for storytelling at age 10 when she wrote about experiencing the Great Hanshin Earthquake. She holds an M.A. in International Affairs from The New School and a B.A. in Magazine Journalism from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications.