article_snippet.sent: (CNN)You may know Mindy Kaling's from Fox's cult hit comedy "The Mindy Project," in which Mindy Kaling's plays Mindy Lahiri, a perky, quirky OB/GYN juggling Mindy Kaling's career and love life in New York.
article_snippet.sent: The show was a breakthrough for on-screen representation
article_snippet.sent: — the first network sitcom created by and starring a woman of color — and The show looks likely to be renewed for the coming 2015-16 season.
article_snippet.sent: Kaling's immense talent and charisma made Kaling a star.
article_snippet.sent: But it was a quota-based affirmative action initiative -- NBC's Diversity Writers Program -- that gave Kaling a start.