Sumana has a varied career in tech marketing, brand management, and social development.
Having graduated with a BBA from the University of Michigan, she worked in the tech industry for 5 years as a brand and project manager at Amazon and Flywheel Digital. She then spent 2 years as a Youth for India Fellow at the State Bank of India's YFI Fellowship program, partnering with Seva Mandir in rural Rajasthan. Her project involved reviving indigenous agriculture, capacity-building for women entrepreneurship, and establishing end-to-end supply chains.She started Saltwater Stories from her cumulative life experience, as a way to help cool people, brands, and organizations tell their stories online.