Nivedita Kulkarni

Nivedita Kulkarni was a finalist of Miss India America in 2007. After earning a degree in Econometrics from Washington University in St. Louis, she moved to New York and began her acting career.^{[citation needed]}

Kulkarni has performed in stage shows including: Anish Shah's National Summer of Comedy Tour,^[4] "The Laziest Woman In The World," which gained a mention in The New York Times,^[5] and the 2011 national NetIP Summit, where Kulkarni became the first Indian American to perform an improvised show on national television.

In 2011, she was selected to be one of the national spokeswomen for Bank of America, and the only South Asian face of the brand. She was subsequently cast in a principal role in Tochi Onyebuchi's film Lippizaners,^[6] which released in 2013. She also did a television commercial for Nescafe USA for 2013.^{[citation needed]}

Nivedita's 2012 article for the Huffington Post, titled "The Craft of Acting," ran on the HuffPost Front Page and on HuffPost Beauty in 2012.^[7]

Kulkarni has partnered with the Nanubhai to organize combined theater shows and fundraisers. The Nanubhai Education Foundation is a US-based non-profit organization that works to promote childhood education in India. In 2012, Kulkarni was nominated to the national Lady Godiva Program for her work with the Nanubhai Foundation.^[8]