Financial and philanthropic

Raji was a Chartered Financial Analyst (C.F.A.) and was a member of the Institute for Chartered Financial Analysts since 1991.^[13] She was a member of the Bretton Woods Committee, an elite organization which supports international finance institutions such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.^[14] Earlier in her career as an international investment banker, she held senior positions at firms including J.P. Morgan & Co., Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham Lambert.^[15]

Raji's past philanthropic activities have included numerous active leadership roles in the nonprofit sector:^[16] Trustee and member of the Executive Committee, Barnard College, Columbia University; Advisory Board, Columbia Business School Tamer Center for Social Enterprise; Founding Co-Chair, Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University; Economic Advisory Council, Center for American Progress; Director, National Partnership for Women & Families.^[17]

Political

By 2008, Raji had left the financial sector to focus on national politics. In 2012, she served as National Finance Vice-Chair and Chair of Swing State Victory Fund for the Obama campaign. Raji was a national advisory board member of the Democratic National Committee and a member of the Obama for America National Finance Committee from 2008 to 2012.^[18] In 2013, President Obama appointed Raji to serve as a Commissioner on The President's Commission on White House Fellows.^[19] In addition, Raji was appointed a Commissioner of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery.^[20]

On July 4, 2016, Raji was recognized as an honoree of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America, the Carnegie Corporation of New York's annual recognition of inspiring naturalized U.S. citizens who have made notable contributions to the progress of American society.^[21]

On December 10, 2016, as the United States Ambassador to Sweden, Raji read Bob Dylan's letter to the Nobel Committee on his behalf during the Nobel banquet in Stockholm, in recognition of Dylan being awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.^{[22][23][24][25]}

Raji was an honoree of the 2017 Ellis Island Medal of Honor^[26][27] and the Recipient of Barnard College's Joan Rivers Trailblazer Award 2020.^[28]