Sujata Srinivasan
Senior Producer / Where We LiveSujata Srinivasan is a Senior Producer for Where We Live, the flagship news-based, call-in talk show from Connecticut Public Radio, featuring deep dives at the intersection of data-driven narrative and investigative long-form journalism. She's also an editor for the Connecticut Public newsroom.
An award-winning journalist with over 20 plus years of reporting and editorial experience for print, online, television, and radio outlets in the U.S. and abroad – including four years as Business Reporter for Connecticut Public Radio – Sujata specializes in Business and Health, and is passionate about economic and health inequity, corporate accountability, sustainability, innovation culture, workplace gender equity, the economics and ethics of consumption, policy impact on industry, and the human condition.
She was previously an independent U.S. correspondent for the Indian edition of Forbes, editor of Connecticut Business Magazine, Connecticut correspondent for Crain’s Business, longtime independent contributor to the Hartford Courant and Hartford Business Journal, contributing editor to the Connecticut Economic Resource Center, senior financial editor supporting the Chicago investment firm Thomas White International, and instructor of economics at Saint Joseph University, among others. She continues to report independently for the women-founded nonprofit Connecticut Health Investigative Team.
Prior to that, Sujata was the interim bureau chief of CNBC-TV 18 in Chennai, India, tasked with expanding her bureau and set to be promoted to Bureau Chief, when she chose to follow her heart and get married to her husband, and relocate to the U.S. to be with him. She is the mother of a child made of sunshine, curiosity, mischief, and love. She also mothers her rescue dog Panju Muttai (Cotton Candy), who is made of stubbornness, tail power, and love.
Sujata has a Master’s in Economics from Trinity College, Hartford; a Post Graduate Diploma (Hons) from the Times School of Journalism, New Delhi; and a Bachelor’s in Business from the University of Madras, Chennai.
Got an idea for a show? Email her at ssrinivasan@ctpublic.org
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Following the recent Supreme Court decision to end the constitutional right to abortion, 'aunties' are banding together to offer help with transportation or a place to stay for people traveling to states like Connecticut where abortion is still legal. -
A new University of Virginia Medical School study found that suicide attempts by children through self-poisoning climbed 27% in five years. Connecticut psychiatrists say suicide attempts are rising statewide.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at food incubators at reSET in Hartford and City Seed in New Haven, and the entrepreneurial ecosystem that is helping them to succeed.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look into the legal quagmire of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals or DACA program, young people unprotected by DACA, and Congress's inaction.
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In this hour of Where We Live, Indra Nooyi, former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, talks about her new book “My Life in Full,” and how Corporate America should step up on paid leave and pay parity
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at the shortage of hospital beds for the treatment of substance use disorder, and discuss efforts to reduce repeat ER visits for overdose. We also look into insurance payment reform and the need to invest in community out-patient resources.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look into the wave of misogyny against Amber Heard and its implications for survivors of intimate partner violence and the #MeToo movement.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look into the state’s tourism strategy and vision this summer and beyond.
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This hour on Where We Live, we look at a hospital-based food-as-medicine program where patients are referred from cardiology, gynecology, and bariatric practices – doctors then measure health outcomes.
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This hour on Where We Live, experts discuss how the baby formula shortage became a national crisis, and weigh in on economic and workplace policies affecting both formula and breastmilk supply.
