Prasanta Verma Anumolu, MBA, MPH

Prasanta Verma Anumolu, MBA MPH, brings over 20 years of experience in public health and business across academic, nonprofit, and healthcare sectors. She values relationship-building and human connection and is passionate about creating spaces that foster a sense of belonging and enhance community well-being. She strives to practice cultural sensitivity and apply an equity lens in her work, and elevate and invite diverse perspectives to the table. In her current role at the University of Wisconsin–Madison Division of Extension, Prasanta is a strategic planning facilitator working with nonprofits and small businesses, delivers educational programming in economic development and food systems, and advances solutions to address food insecurity. She is the author of Beyond Ethnic Loneliness, a 2024 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year finalist, and is a professional development and public speaker on the topics of civic dialogue, social connection and the loneliness epidemic, and ethnicity and belonging. Outside of her professional work and writing, she enjoys reading, journaling, sketching, and traveling.