Monika Samtani

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Monika Samtani
NationalityAmerican
OccupationBroadcast journalist [1]
Notable credit(s)anchor, WUSA9 [2] [3]
Website www.msmedia.tv/monika_samtani/

Monika Samtani is an American broadcast journalist. She is best known for directing a documentary movie Suma's Story: It's Her Turn (2015). [4]

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Career

Samtani attended George Washington University and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television Communications. [5] She was a fill-in disc jockey on Essex Radio/Breeze AM in 1989. [6] She joined as a morning traffic anchor on WUSA9 in 1997. [7] [8] [9] She appeared in the film An American Affair (2008). [10] [11] [12]

Samtani founded LAUNCH Network from 2011 to 2013, a networking organization for women entrepreneurs. [13] In 2014, she started her company Ms. Media, with a focus on helping businesses and non-profits market themselves, including Sahara Deepika Foundation for Education [14] [15] [16] [17] In 2016, Samtani became a TEDx talker. [18] [19]

Awards and honors

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