Rajan Zed is a Hindu chaplain from Reno who was invited to read prayers to the Nevada Assembly and the Nevada Senate,, as well as the United States Senate – 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, New Mexico, Colorado, and Washington.
Zed 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 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 has been on the board of directors of Washoe Library Foundation; in the academic Senate of San Jose State University, California 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 Who’s Who in America, 2006. He also teaches occasional non-credit classes at Truckee Meadows Community College on Hinduism.
Zed grew up in Kapurthala, a city in Punjab state of India. He has an MBA from University of Nevada-Reno, an M.Sc. in Mass Communications from San Jose State University, California, and a journalism degree from Panjab University, India.
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