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07/15/2024

The Magic of Neverland: Announcing Our Honoree Sree Sreenivasan

We are thrilled to announce that Sree Sreenivasan will be honored at our 79th Annual Gala, “Neverland: L’Isola che non c’è.”

Sree Sreenivasan is an award-winning NYC-based expert in digital communications. He is CEO and co-founder of Digimentors, a digital, social, training & AI consultancy. 
He has served as Chief Digital Officer of New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Columbia University (where he was a full-time professor of journalism for 20+ years). 

He is the 2024 President of SAJA, the South Asian Journalists Association and since 2022, he has served on the board of Nobel Prize Foundation Outreach. In 1994, he co-founded SAJA, and in 1999, ONA, the Online News Association. 

In 2020, the President of Italy awarded Sree the knighthood of the Order of the Star of Italy for his role in promoting US-Italian relations. 

In 2015, Fast Company named him one of the 100 most creative people in business and in 2010, he was named one of the 35 most influential people in social media by the Poynter Institute. In 2004, Newsweek named him one of the 20 most influential “young” South Asians in America, along with Kamala Harris, M. Night Shyamalan and Norah Jones. In 2014, he was named world’s most influential CDO by CDO Club. In 2012, he was named to a seed list of the top 100 journalists of the previous century by Unity: Journalists of Color.

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