Rajan Zed

Rajan Zed is an Indian American Hindu who is notable for having been invited to read the historically first Hindu prayers to the Washington State Senate, Nevada Assembly and the Nevada Senate, as well as the United States Senate in Washington, D.C. - his prayer is transcribed on page S9069 of the Congressional Record. He also read the historic first Hindu prayers in the State Senates of California, Arizona, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington. besides Arizona House of Representatives.
Public life
Zed is one of the panelists for "On Faith", a prestigious interactive conversation on religion produced jointly by Newsweek and washingtonpost.com. He is president of Universal Society of Hinduism, Spiritual Advisor to the National Association of Interchurch and Interfaith Families and Director of Interfaith Relations of Nevada Clergy Association. He is Public Relations Officer of the Hindu Temple of Northern Nevada, which is raising money to build a Hindu temple in the Reno area.
Active in interfaith dialogue and as a chaplain in Nevada and California hospitals, Zed is a member of the Reno Police Chief Advisory Board and a member of Diversity Action Plan committee of Washoe County School District. He is on the Board of Directors of Northern Nevada International Center and Nevada World Trade Council. He has been elected to the office of General Improvement District Trustee of Verdi TV District and is a Member of Citizens Advisory Committee of Regional Transportation Commission. He is Public Relations Officer of India Association of Northern Nevada. He has been on the Board of Directors of Washoe Library Foundation; in the Academic Senate of San Jose State University, California; on Editorial Board of Reno Gazette-Journal, a Gannett newspaper; and on the Board of Directors of California State Employees Credit Union of San Jose. He was on the health curriculum committee of Fremont Unified School District in California; was a member of the planning and budget committee of University of Nevada-Reno and was listed in , 2006. He also teaches at Truckee Meadows Community College.
Achievements
Zed has an MBA from University of Nevada-Reno; a Master of Science in Mass Communications from San Jose State University, California; and Bachelor of Journalism from Panjab University, India.
He has been bestowed with “World Interfaith Leader Award” by the "National Association of Interchurch and Interfaith Families" (NAIIF) for “demonstrated extraordinary world leadership, courage and capacity for inspiring in others the urge of interfaith dialogue and cordial relations between faith communities”.
== Documentary film “ARTICLE VI: Faith* Politics* America”==
Zed is part of the documentary film “ARTICLE VI: Faith* Politics* America”, directed by Bryan D. Hall and Jack R. Donaldson, which offers an intense discussion of the role of faith in politics and examination of the religious freedom in America.

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