(June 14, 2024) Litisha Bagadia and Siya Joshi, the co-founders of the Ayika Foundation, were busy brainstorming their next climate action movement. Their challenge, however, was much larger than simply getting people to show up and then go back home. They wanted to...
(January 23, 2024) Soon after graduating from high school, best friends Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi did what Asian immigrants in the US rarely do. They took a gap year. They travelled together to all 50 states of the US, in the hope of educating themselves about race,...
(November 26, 2023) When Saket was around nine years old, he went home to visit his grandparent’s home in India with his parents. While he was playing with the local kids, he realised that several of those kids did not go to schools regularly, or had books to...
(October 19, 2023) When UmaSofia Srivastava was just a little girl, she’d stay up late with her mom, captivated by the dazzling beauty pageants on TV. During one of those magical moments, she declared to her parents, “I’ll be a beauty queen one...
