Indira (Annie) Chandra is a successful business owner in San Jose, California and has been recognised and honored for her leadership and community service. Her emphasis has been on achieving a balance between her responsibility to her family/friends and her responsibility to her community/world. To her living a meaningful life means contributing and making a difference on issues of importance such as poverty, disease, illiteracy, justice, and empowerment of the underprivileged specially women and children. Her interest and passion also extends to resolving issues of global conflict. She believes that it is possible to resolve these issues by focusing on the root causes. This means creation of a shared vision and then exploring the choices any community or nation has. Creating clarity of purpose and awareness of the choices empowers people. As a co founder of Coalition 2001 – Celebration of Unity in Diversity, this is precisely what she did in the Bay area. She has been a delegate to CA Democratic Party and runner up nominee, National Democratic Party for the 15th Congressional District. She has served two terms as chairperson for the Santa Clara County commission on the Status of women, amongst several other Boards and Organizations. Additionally she is an active Senior Fellow of the American Leadership Forum.