Vishavjit Singh

Vishavjit Singh is an American cartoonist, author, and activist. one of whom worked in the Indian Embassy. In 1975, Singh's family moved from nearby Hyattsville, Maryland to Delhi, India.

While he was attending middle school in India, two of Indira Gandhi's Sikh bodyguards assassinated her. Through the actions of a Hindu neighbor, Singh's family escaped the Hindu gang violence of the ensuing anti-Sikh riots in which thousands of Sikhs were killed. The memories of these pogroms left a lasting effect on Singh. In 2000, Singh relocated to the East Coast of the United States to work as a software engineer. He frequently drew upon his own experiences of being discriminated against as a Sikh for his comics. In 2002, he started his own comic website. Singh also decided to embody his 2011 creation by cosplaying as Sikh Captain America as a way to start conversations on tolerance and raise awareness about the Sikh community. When Singh was cosplaying Sikh Captain America he met then film students Ryan Westra, Ben Fischinger and Matthew Rogers.

In 2016, Singh was featured in "The Sikh Project,” a pop-up gallery exhibit in SoHo that highlighted 38 portraits of Sikh-American men and women. In 2018, Singh contributed to the New York's Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center exhibit “CTRL+ALT: A Culture Lab on Imagined Futures." Singh is also featured in the 2022 anthology We Are Here: 30 Inspiring Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Who Have Shaped the United States by Naomi Hirahara and published by the Smithsonian Institution and Running Press Kids.

In 2023, Singh's documentary American Sikh was showcased at Chicago International Film Festival.