Board
Dilmohan Singh Chadha – President
A Bay-Area entrepreneur with more than three decades in international stone supply, Mr. Chadha is President & CEO of Integrated Resources Group, operating large showrooms in Brisbane and Dublin, California. Drawing on earlier experience in commercial lending at Wells Fargo, he now channels his business acumen into strategic growth and philanthropic outreach for the Foundation.
Kiran (“Kiki”) Kaur Kapany – CEO
Kiki Kapany is a founder and Producer/Director at Kikim Media, producing award-winning documentaries on science, technology, history, and social issues for PBS, NOVA, and other major platforms. Her work includes Wired for Connection (coming soon), Weathering the Future (NOVA), Secrets in Our DNA (NOVA), Look Who’s Driving (NOVA), The Ornament of the World (PBS), and the Emmy-nominated In Defense of Food (PBS). A UC Berkeley graduate and licensed attorney, she combines creative vision with legal expertise to bring impactful stories to life. As CEO of the Sikh Foundation, she carries forward the vision of her parents, founders Dr. Narinder Singh Kapany and Mrs. Satinder Kaur Kapany.
Pritinder Singh Arora – Treasurer
Mr. Arora is a lifelong entrepreneur whose ventures span retail and real-estate development. Passionate about language preservation, he led community fundraising to keep Punjabi-language instruction thriving at UC Berkeley and continues to steward the Foundation’s finances with the same hands-on dedication.
Sonia Dhami
Sonia Dhami is a curator and cultural advocate who has organized landmark Sikh art exhibitions including I Will Meet You Yet Again (UCLA Fowler Museum) and Nānaka Ivẽ Jānīẽ (Loyola Marymount University), and co-edited Sikh Art from the Kapany Collection (Smithsonian). As President of Art & Tolerance Inc., she promotes inclusivity through the arts and advances Sikh cultural representation globally. She serves on the Foundation’s Board, bringing her curatorial expertise to its work in Sikh art and cultural representation.
Sardool Singh Samra
Sardool Singh Samra is a civic leader and long-standing patron of Punjabi arts, culture, and historical preservation. He sponsored the children’s book Games We Play and is a Founding Donor of The 1947 Partition Archive. As a Board member and owner of commercial franchises in the Bay Area, he brings his business experience and passion for community service to the Foundation’s mission.
Trustees
Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Global Studies & Sociology at UC Santa Barbara, Prof. Juergensmeyer is a world authority on religion and conflict whose 30 books include the seminal Terror in the Mind of God. As interim Kundan Kaur Kapany Chair in Sikh Studies, he links the Foundation to cutting-edge academic research and public scholarship.
Dr. Kanwaljeet S. (“Sunny”) Anand
A Rhodes Scholar and world-recognized pioneer in neonatal pain research, Dr. Anand is Professor of Pediatrics, Anesthesiology, Peri-operative & Pain Medicine at Stanford. He directs the Pain/Stress Neurobiology Lab and advises NIH, FDA, and WHO panels. His advocacy for children’s health and cross-faith community work align powerfully with the Foundation’s service ethos.
Prof. Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
Crawford Family Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Colby College, Prof. Singh pioneered feminist readings of Sikh scripture and produced the first English verse translation of the Guru Granth Sahib. Her numerous books include The Feminine Principle in the Sikh Vision of the Transcendent and The First Sikh. She serves as a Trustee of the Sikh Foundation, bringing her scholarship on Sikh scripture to its work.
Dr. Inderjit N. Kaur
An ethnomusicologist in the University of Michigan’s School of Music, Dr. Kaur holds dual Ph.D.s (Ethnomusicology and Agricultural Economics, UC Berkeley). Her work on Sikh kīrtan and South-Asian soundscapes bridges sensory ethnography, affect theory, and diaspora studies, with a monograph currently in preparation. She serves as a Trustee of the Sikh Foundation, bringing her expertise in Sikh kīrtan to its work.
Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge
Dr. Rajbir Singh Judge is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Long Beach, specializing in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a focus on Punjab and the Sikh tradition. He is the author of Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia and is currently writing his second book, A Critique of Contextual Reason, as a member of the Institute for Advanced Study. He serves as a Trustee of the Sikh Foundation, bringing his scholarship on Punjab and the Sikh tradition to its work.
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh
Dr. Simran Jeet Singh is Assistant Professor of Interreligious Histories at Union Theological Seminary and author of the national bestseller The Light We Give: How Sikh Wisdom Can Transform Your Life. He also serves as Senior Advisor for the Aspen Institute’s Religion & Society Program and is an award-winning writer of books for adults and children, including Fauja Singh Keeps Going and A Vaisakhi to Remember. He serves as a Trustee of the Sikh Foundation, bringing his voice as a writer and educator to its work.
Mallika Kaur
Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law and co-founder of the Sikh Family Center, Kaur is a lawyer-author focused on gender justice and minority rights. Her book Faith, Gender, and Activism in the Punjab Conflict (2019) combines legal insight with oral history to foreground grassroots human-rights defenders. She serves as a Trustee of the Sikh Foundation, bringing her legal and human-rights expertise to its work.
Emeritus Trustees
Raj Kapany – Emeritus Trustee
An investor with Sand Hill Angels and a veteran of the fiber-optics industry, Mr. Kapany holds board or advisory seats on seven tech companies. He leverages deep experience in photonics and growth finance to mentor Sikh-origin founders and to guide the Foundation’s technology partnerships. A son of the Foundation’s founders, he served as a Trustee and continues his involvement as Emeritus Trustee.
Staff
Tanmeet Gujral – Director
Tanmeet Gujral is Director of the Sikh Foundation, where she leads cultural and educational programs, museum partnerships, exhibition events, and fundraising. Drawing on years of experience in the accounting and tax industry, she also manages the Foundation’s finances. She serves as Journal Manager and Copyeditor of the Sikh Research Journal and is fluent in English, Hindi, and Punjabi.