Sankar was born in India and immigrated to the U.S. to attend graduate school, earning a Masters in Physics, and a PhD in Engineering from Purdue University. After a successful career in high tech, he now applies his technical knowledge, managerial skills and pragmatic mind to non-profit leadership. Sankar is an award-winning digital art photographer, author, storyteller, community leader and a motivational speaker. He lives in Portland with his wife, where they enjoy taking photographs of the beautiful Northwest.
Sankar Raman founded The Immigrant Story and currently serves as its board President. Over the past six years, Sankar has been instrumental in developing TIS into a collaborative community-oriented multimedia arts programming organization. Today, The Immigrant Story has become a premier storytelling organization in the Pacific Northwest.