{"id":1328,"date":"2026-01-23T07:01:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akkaonline.org\/?page_id=1328"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:38:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:38:29","slug":"committees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akkaonline.org\/main\/committees\/","title":{"rendered":"Committees"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Committees<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Committees<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Membership Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Kannada Kootas Coordination<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Newsletter \/ Email Marketing\t\t<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Creative Design \/ Website Design & Development<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Publicity and Social Media Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Charity Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fundraising Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Constitution Review & By-Law Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Convention Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Women's Committee<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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The President and Secretary will be part of all the committees. In addition to AKKA Core responsibilities, all the BOD members will be participating in one or more convention committees as AKKA representatives.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Membership Committee\t<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Manu Gorur\n<\/td>\n\n Chair\n<\/td>\n\n
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  • \n Manages the task of reaching out to all Kannada Kootas and Kannadigas around the United States to promote AKKA membership and to gain Kannada charter support for the convention through monetary help.\n\n <\/li>\n <\/ul>\n \n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Kavitha Ramanna\n <\/td>\n \n Co-Chair\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n Pramod Lakshme Gowda\n <\/td>\n \n Member\n <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Kannada Kootas Coordination<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Manages the task of reaching out to all Kannada Kootas and Kannadigas around the United States to promote AKKA membership and to gain Kannada charter support for the convention through monetary help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sanjay Gowda<\/td>\nCo-chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Newsletter \/ Email Marketing<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satish Hosanagara<\/td>\n Chair<\/td>\n\n
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  • Produces a monthly newsletter about convention proceedings, AKKA highlights, Kannada Koota highlights.<\/li>\n
  • Focus on providing content that is Kannadigas in US oriented, and public information, and not much personnel related.<\/li>\n
  • Works closely with publicity chair to leverage content about registration<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vinod Kumar<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chandru Aradhya<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Creative Design \/ Website Design & Development<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vinod Gowda<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n\n
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  • Manages and owns AKKA2024 website content.<\/li>\n
  • Works closely with the publicity committee to stay consistent with convention information.<\/li>\n
  • Works with registration, Kannada Koota coordination committee to show interesting data about road to convention.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Raghu Shivaram<\/td>\nCo-chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arun Rao<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nagendra Sanjeeva<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Publicity and Social Media Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mani Sreenivas<\/td>\nChair<\/td>\n\n
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  • Handles all outward facing publicity content (website, media) information.<\/li>\n
  • Works with AKKA convener to gather requirements and creates content for publicity.<\/li>\n
  • Also arranges and co-ordinates media interviews and promotes AKKA core values.<\/li>\n
  • Owns providing press related communication to AKKA President and Secretary who are responsible to release any press information.<\/li>\n
  • All communications shall be reviewed by the President and Secretary and\/or a delegate.<\/li>\n
  • Parallel to the publicity team, Social Media team, leverages all content from website and publicity team, to push on FaceBook, Instagram, What\u2019s app groups and Twitter. Focus on reaching out to young Kannadigas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Devika Kaiwara Rajappa <\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roopa Melkote<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ravindra Kumar<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Sujhana Nagarajh<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rohini Anand<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hima Bindu<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chetana Desai<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lavanya Chethan<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Vinod Kumar<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Charity Committee\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Roopashri Melkote<\/td>\nChair<\/td>\n\n
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  • Raises funds, identifies charity organizations and proposes to BOD, to continue AKKA charity efforts as previous years.<\/li>\n
  • Plans to launch a certain charitable activity at the convention. Host fundraising programs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr Anuradha Tavrekere<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Punith <\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Suresh Gadagi <\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Arun Rao <\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Satish Hosanagara<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Prakash Krishnamurthy <\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Fundraising Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Coming Soon<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Handles all outward facing publicity content (website, media) information.<\/li>\n
  • Works with AKKA convener to gather requirements and creates content for publicity.<\/li>\n
  • Also arranges and coordinates media interviews and promotes AKKA core values.Owns providing press related communication to AKKA President and Secretary who are responsible to release any press information.<\/li>\n
  • All communications shall be reviewed by the President and Secretary and\/or a delegate.<\/li>\n
  • Parallel to the publicity team, Social Media team, leverages all content from website and publicity team, to push on FaceBook, Instagram, What\u2019s app groups and Twitter. Focus on reaching out to young Kannadigas.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Constitution Review & By-Law Committee\n<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Coming Soon<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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  • Handles any amendment to constitution and by-law content.<\/li>\n
  • Follows the process outlined in the constitution to seek, deliberate, change and review before putting into effect.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Convention Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Daya Adapa<\/td>\nChair<\/td>\n\n
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  • Team up with fellow conveners, understand the overall plan, risks and run a successful, zero deficit convention.<\/li>\n
  • Recruit talented individuals who have expertise with no bias or favoring any particular individual.<\/li>\n
  • \n Take a neutral approach to benefit all attendees.\n<\/li>\n
  • \n Ensures all budgets and guidelines are properly followed by all committee chairs.\n<\/li>\n
  • \n The primary goal is to make a one of a kind convention.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dr. Naveen Krishna<\/td>\nCo-Chair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chandru Aradhya<\/td>\nMember<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Women's Committee<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Name<\/strong><\/td>\nRole<\/strong><\/td>\nRoles and Responsibilities<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Chaya Gowda<\/td>\nChair<\/td>\n\n
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