Sayantani DasGupta

Sayantani DasGupta is a renowned American children’s author and physician-scholar of Indian heritage. She was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1970 and was brought up in New Jersey and Ohio. Sayantani completed her graduation from Brown University. She earned her MPH and M.D. degrees from the John Hopkins Univerity. Sayantani is trained in public health and pediatrics. She is employed at the Columbia University as a teacher of Narrative medicine in the Master’s degree program. She also teaches in the Graduate Program at the Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to writing children’s stories, practicing medicine, and teaching, Sayantani speaks on the issues of race, gender, medical education, and storytelling on the national level.