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Bella Aung hails from Yangon, Myanmar, and is a rising senior majoring in International Relations with a minor in Mathematics at Linfield College, Oregon. In addition to being a globetrotter, she is also an avid advocate for human rights, and proudly considers herself a feminist. When she is not busy preparing for graduate school applications in Women’s Studies Masters Programs, she can be found either petting cats, baking cookies, or dancing to Frank Sinatra.
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Maria Imam is originally from Bangladesh and now lives in Queens. She just completed her first year of law school at New York Law School.
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Usha Kaul majors in Cultural Anthropology with an emphasis on Women’s Studies at Goucher College. She has been a teaching assistant at the International Center for Photography, and currently works at the Office of the Manhattan Borough President. Two summers ago, her commitment to women’s issues landed her at the Urban Justice Center’s Domestic Violence Project; her desire to support the South Asian community now leads her to Sakhi. A resident of New York City, she loves photography and travel.
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Srujana Sinha is a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and secretary of the university’s chapter of Yoni Ki Baat. She is double-majoring in BCN (biopsychology, cognition, and neuroscience) and political science, and hopes to attend law school graduation. Srujana is interested in feminism, social justice, and reading/writing, and hopes that her time at Sakhi is meaningful and helpful to South Asian women.
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Sonia Taneja is a student at the Yale School of Medicine interested in working at the intersection of social justice, public health promotion, and medicine, towards a goal of health equity for historically disenfranchised groups. She has worked as a Parker Huang Fellow in India studying the mental health of female sex workers and women coerced into prostitution and also has an MSC in Public Health from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine where she studied race as a barrier towards cervical cancer screenings in the U.S. Outside of work, Sonia is an avid comedy clubber, Bollywood watcher, and bhangra dancer. Sonia is looking forward to joining the Sakhi family by working and learning beside a group of inspiring, radical diasporic South Asian women!
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Vrinda Trivedi is a junior Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and Political Science double major at the College of Wooster. Born in South Africa to an Indian immigrant family, and raised in Cleveland, she enjoys exploring intersections of identity. Her academic interests address these intersections, as she is in the midst of writing a thesis entitled, “Okay Ladies Now Let’s Get in Formation: A Comparative Analysis of the Development of Grassroots Women’s Movements Post-Civil Conflict.”
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