Personal Life
Raised in Huntington, NY, the daughter of an Indian father and American mother, Mukherjee found herself exposed early to issues of global poverty and social injustice. In 1972, at the age of eight, she traveled to India where she found herself outraged by squalid conditions of poverty. Mukherjee’s passion to combat poverty and injustice continued throughout her early years and was fostered through action and academic pursuit. Having served populations of the world’s poorest and witnessed first-hand the global injustices that plague so many, Mukherjee finds much needed motivation and enjoyment in singing, cooking, and spending time with loved ones.
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“Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body or moral nature, there the State enters ‘woman’s peculiar sphere,’ her sphere of motherly succor and training, her sphere of sympathetic and self-sacrificing ministration to individual lives.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)