Archana Pyati is the senior media relations manager at CLASP. She works closely with CLASP policy teams and the executive team to ensure CLASP’s perspective and experts inform media coverage of the organization’s key policy priorities. She builds relationships with national and state/local media so that they consider CLASP a go-to resource for coverage of issues affecting people and families with low incomes.

Archana brings more than 15 years of experience working in journalism and non-profit communications to CLASP.  She has served in communications roles at the Urban Institute, Urban Land Institute (ULI), and Suited for Change.  She has contributed in-depth features and news as a freelance and staff writer for a variety of magazines and newspapers. Archana has a BA, summa cum laude, from the Ohio State University and a master’s in journalism from the University of California, Berkeley.