Savita Iyer, the Penn Stater magazine’s senior editor, grew up in Geneva, Switzerland. She attended the International School of Geneva and studied at the University of Geneva, before completing her post-graduate education at the University of London, U.K., and at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications. She worked as a business journalist in New York City for eight years, and, before joining the Penn Stater in February 2017, she freelanced for 13 years, writing on a wide range of topics for magazines and websites in New York, London and Mumbai, India.

During those 13 years, Savita was also lucky enough to live in and work from a few different countries, including India, The Netherlands—and Switzerland. She was lucky enough to spend a year (2005-2006) in Geneva with her parents in her childhood apartment with her two young children (who attended a neighborhood school), rekindling old friendships, making new ones, and strengthening an unbreakable bond with the city she grew up in. 

Savita is fluent in French and Spanish and she also speaks Italian and Hindi. She lives in State College with her husband, a research scientist in Penn State’s Forestry Resources department, and their two teenage children. She enjoys traveling, reading, art cinema and baking, and she has a keen interest in vintage fashion.