Khanna was born January 29, 1972, in Cannes, Cote d'Azur, France to American parents. She attended high school there and returned to the United States to attend college. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Bryn Mawr College in 1993 and received additional education at Columbia University in 1994, where she completed a Master's degree in Political science.[1]
Career
Khanna worked for Morgan Stanley and Euromonitor International before entering politics.[2] In 2007, Khanna started an organic meal delivery service based in Banksville and serving Greenwich and Stamford and also published two cookbooks.[3] She is currently also on the board of trustees of the Jaideep and Rachel Khanna Foundation, a Greenwich non-profit organization.[4]
Since 2019, she also served on the Representative Town Meeting (RTM) in Greenwich, for District 10.
Connecticut House of Representatives
Elections
2022
In 2022, she was elected as the representative from the 149th district in the Connecticut House of Representatives for the Democratic Party defeating Republican Incumbent Kimberly Fiorello.
Tenure
She currently serves on the Appropriations Committee, Government Administration & Elections Committee as well as the Transportation Committee.[5]
Electoral history
2022 Connecticut State House of Representatives election, 149th District[6]
In 1994, she married Indian-born banker and financier Jaideep Chand Khanna (b. 1963), in Manhattan, New York.[7][8] They were introduced while working at Morgan Stanley in New York City.