MADHULIKA SIKKA, one of the senior-most South Asians in American broadcasting has moved from TV to radio. In the spring of 2006, she became supervising senior producer at Morning Edition, NPR's most listened-to show. "It is an exciting new challenge and has been quite a whirlwind," she told SAJA.org.

Previously she worked for 13 years ABC News Nightline rising to senior producer. She started as a researcher at the broadcast in 1992. Prior to coming to ABC she worked at World Monitor, a television broadcast of the Christian Science Monitor. She has worked for CBS News in Tokyo and NBC News in London.

She is the winner of five Emmy awards, a Barone award, an Edward R. Murrow award, a Dupont and Peabody and two awards from the South Asian Journalists Association.

She has a BA from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and an MPhil from Cambridge University.

She lives in Washington D.C. with her husband and two children.