Hari Sreenivasan

Hariharan "Hari" Sreenivasan (born 1974) is an American broadcast journalist.

Biography Sreenivasan was born in Mumbai, India, into a Tamil family, around 1974. After immigrating to the United States at age seven, he attended Nathan Hale High School in Seattle, Washington. where he became a radio disc jockey. While earning his degree in 1995 in mass communication (with minors in politics and philosophy) at University of Puget Sound, he interned for several TV news stations in the state of Washington. In September 2008, Sreenivasan became a U.S. citizen.

Late in 2009, he became an "online/on-air correspondent" He regularly replaced the late correspondent Gwen Ifill and stands in for Judy Woodruff when she is away or on assignment.

Miss America 2014 Nina Davuluri and Sreenivasan hosted a talk given by Narendra Modi, the Prime Minister of India, on September 28, 2014, at Madison Square Garden in Midtown Manhattan, in front of an audience of over 18,000. This was Modi's first visit to the United States since he had been denied a visa in 2005.

Other PBS projects

Sreenivasan also anchors SciTech Now, a science program produced by WLIW 21, a WNET sister station and PBS affiliate on Long Island. He is also a correspondent for Amanpour & Company, based out of the WNET studios in Manhattan.