Walking Tour Curators
Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh are long-time Bay Area activists and community-based historians who have been involved in over a dozen South Asian American social justice, feminist, LGBTQ, environmental, and arts groups and campaigns.
The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on their work doing oral history, archival research, and active engagement with historical research in the field. The walking tour shares these histories with a wider community, to inform, ground, and inspire new activism, in the tradition of movement historians like Zinn and Takaki.
In addition to the walking tour, Ghosh and Chatterjee currently work with Walk Bike Berkeley, TransForm, Bay Area Solidarity Summer, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, and the Desi Queer Helpline.
The Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour is based on their work doing oral history, archival research, and active engagement with historical research in the field. The walking tour shares these histories with a wider community, to inform, ground, and inspire new activism, in the tradition of movement historians like Zinn and Takaki.
In addition to the walking tour, Ghosh and Chatterjee currently work with Walk Bike Berkeley, TransForm, Bay Area Solidarity Summer, the Alliance of South Asians Taking Action, and the Desi Queer Helpline.