San Francisco Bay Area
Sindhu Ravuri is a freshman at UC Berkeley, CA. She is a Dean's List student, Alpha Delta Phi Literary Scholarship 1st Place Awardee and CAA Leadership Award Recipient. In addition, she is current Chemistry Teacher Scholar Fall 2016, The Student Press Law Center's Inagural Active Voice Fellow 2016-2017, and Technical Education Research Intern with the Aam Aadmi Party, Government of NCT of Delhi, India. She is also a writer for the Daily Cal's Weekender Feature Magazine. Her greatest passion is working toward anti-sex child trafficking. Her work with Apne Aap Women Worldwide headed by Ruchira Gupta, an Emmy-Award winner and UN Delegate, was recognized with the President’s Award for Community Service (Gold). She recently adopted a 5-year-old girl, Prachi from Dharampura, India, who is at risk of being trafficked and will provide her a life-long education through savings. She started a branch of Apne Aap in California and wishes to raise awareness about sex trafficking amongst youth through the “Cool Men Don’t buy Sex” campaign. Sindhu was the youngest speaker invited to present at the Women's World Congress (WWC) in 2014 in Hyderabad, India. Hosted by the University of Hyderabad and headed by Professor Rekha Pande, the theme for this conference was "Gender in a Changing World." Her other leadership qualities include being Editor-in-Chief and Founder of Wingspan, the first Harker School Features Magazine. She is an accomplished Kuchipudi (Indian Classical) dancer, and has been named the State, National and International champion in the art. She performed for the President of India, and toured Russia and Germany.
After a rigorous selection process including an interview and written essay application, five female fellows were selected from across the nation for the inaugural class of Active Voice fellowships. These five young women from colleges across the country, and each given a stipend of $6000, will spend the academic year working on a free speech service project in their communities aimed at maximizing the voices of female high school journalists, with the help of mentors in law, journalism, and other fields.
Superior: Roshan Shankar, graduate of Stanford University, Advisor — Government of NCT of Delhi (https://indianpoliticsandpolicy.wordpress.com/about/) Project Partner: Pranav Jain, graduate of IIIT Delhi Project in India hinges on the quality and quantity of education in Delhi, with a concentration on technical education. Since the bureaucracy does not actively push for particular changes, the education sector here in Delhi is neglected (although there are outlined plans for change, few have actualized). Right now, there are approximately 50-60,000 students who do not pursue higher education following either tenth or twelfth grade. Our mission is to ensure that they have the option to pursue a four-year undergraduate program or, if they prefer, a vocational/skill development two-year training course. Even though we know that these 50-60,000 students of all financial backgrounds are not pursuing higher, skill-development-oriented education, we do not know why. My job is to find out this ‘why’ (is it a structural, institutional issue?), and how to incorporate these students into the education system as best I can.
After an application process, the Chemistry Undergraduate Teacher Scholar Program selects undergraduate students as apprentice instructors in lower division laboratory and discussion sections. In a weekly meeting with instructors, participants learn about teaching, review chemistry knowledge, and are coached to mentor students. They then use those skills in their assigned sections to teach other students.
We’re at the start of a revolution that will transform our lives as radically as the computer revolution of the 70s. The biological revolution will touch every aspect of our lives: food and health, certainly, but also art, recreation, law, business, and much more. BioCoder is the newsletter of that revolution. It’s about biology as it moves from research labs into startup incubators, hacker spaces, and even homes. It’s about a very old programming language that we’re just beginning to understand, and that’s written in a code made up of organic chemicals. It’s the product of a sharing community of scientists that stretches from grade school to post docs and university faculty.
Working on immunology experiment that will elucidate mechanisms of colon cancer through histology. In charge of performing and organizing daily genotyping tasks.