LAS VEGAS — Nevada Donor Network Foundation (NDNF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rita Vaswani as a founding board member. Vaswani is the vice president, client relationship manager for Nevada State Bank and has more than two decades of banking experience. She also has a strong background in health care and focuses on banking relationships primarily serving Nevada’s health care industry.
Dedicated to volunteerism and her community, Vaswani serves on several medical, nonprofit and advocacy boards. As a Las Vegas resident since 1992, Vaswani is the founding president of the Las Vegas India Chamber of Commerce and president of the Asian American Group (AAG). She sits on several boards, including the Touro University Advisory Board, Dignity Health-St. Rose Hospitals Advisory Board, Women’s Chamber of Commerce of Nevada Executive Board, Las Vegas Metro Police Multi-Cultural Advisory Council Advisory Board, and the FBI Citizens Academy Board of Trustees. Vaswani also serves as policy chair for AREAA (Asian Realtors Association of America).
Vaswani is founder/president of the Nevada Congressional Awards Board and a member of the National Congressional Awards Board. In addition, she was appointed to Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak’s transition advisory committee.
Vaswani has been honored as one of the 2014, 2015 and 2018 Las Vegas’ Top 100 Women of Influence, Distinguished Women of Nevada, and Woman of the Year by the Asian Community Resource Center of Nevada.
About Nevada Donor Network
Nevada Donor Network is a federally designated 501©(3) not-for-profit organ procurement organization (OPO) committed to maximizing the gift of life and health through organ and tissue donation. Established in 1987, Nevada Donor Network is one of only 58 OPOs in the U.S. serving more than three million people in the state of Nevada and 110,000 potential transplant recipients across the country. They work collaboratively with hospital staff and community partners to promote research and provide a strong support network to courageous donor families who’ve turned loss into hope. At Nevada Donor Network, they encourage Nevadans to help individuals in need of life-saving transplants through education, research and action. Nevada Donor Network is a member of Donate Life Nevada, an affiliate of Donate Life America, whose state-wide efforts encourage Nevadans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors. For more information, please visit www.nvdonor.org/
