Srinija Srinivasan

Who is Srinija Srinivasan?

Srinija Srinivasan is co-founder of The Loove, a developing facility in Brooklyn, NY dedicated to promoting a transparent, artist-centric, community-based paradigm for the production, presentation, and equitable distribution of creative music. In 2010, she stepped down from Yahoo! Inc. as Vice President, Editor in Chief after a 15-year tenure with the company. Since joining Yahoo! as its fifth employee in 1995, Ms. Srinivasan led a range of editorial and policy functions globally, beginning with the organization and evolution of the Yahoo! Directory and expanding to include network editorial standards, privacy and data use, advertising standards, youth safety, community guidelines, accessibility, and corporate responsibility. Prior to joining Yahoo!, Ms. Srinivasan was involved with the Cyc Project, a ten-year artificial intelligence effort to build an immense database of human commonsense knowledge. In 2010, she was appointed by President Obama to the Commission on Presidential Scholars, and she is a member of the 2000 class of Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute. She holds a B.S. with distinction from Stanford University in Symbolic Systems, and lives bicoastally in Palo Alto, CA and New York City.