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Adarsh Gupta is a sophomore at Saint Francis High School. He is the CEO and founder of Fit4Grit Academy, a martial art and fitness non-profit for youth. He has had multiple experiences with entrepreneurship in the past, including co-founding an app called Guidey to help the homeless. He practices various martial arts as a 2nd degrees black belt and also plays competitive golf on his school team and practices and teaches dance in and out of Saint Francis.   

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Anika Shah is a sophomore Government major on a Pre-Law track at the University of Texas at Austin. Anika’s passion for student-led activism first began in 2018 after witnessing the atrocities of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school shooting which compelled her to act. More recently, she is a founding member of the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition (SARC), a coalition dedicated to creating tangible and sustainable anti-racist changes in her local community. She is hoping to inspire generations of change-makers!  

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Trisha Batra is Robotic Process Automation Analyst and the Founder/CEO of South Asian Productions. She graduated as a student athlete (on the college dance team) from the University of California Riverside and majored in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Technology. During University she won the title of Miss California Earth United States, and was able to participate in multiple modeling projects. In her spare time you can find Trisha taking a dance class, doing a photoshoot, or on a coffee date talking about brand/digital marketing strategies.

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Saanya Gupta is a freshman at University of California-Davis majoring in food science. She loves to bake and uses it to combat issues such as food insecurity and hold classes to teach others some tips and tricks. Through this podcast, she will be explaining food insecurity, how we can help and a little about what she is doing currently.

Jacob is a filmmaker who has used art therapy through illustration, animation, and filmmaking in order to process trauma. After this cathartic realization, he has set out to spread awareness on how art therapy can help youth process and ultimately confront trauma through a fun and non-invasive manner. He has given a speech at Viacom headquarters about this very topic and how it can help other youth struggling with trauma. Jacob is currently in the brainstorming process of forming an after school program that provides art therapy for K-12.  

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Dhruv Pai, a student in the STEM magnet program in Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, MD, is actively engaged in public service. He is the Co-founder and President of an international non profit organization 'Teens Helping Seniors' formed during COVID-19 crisis to provide delivery of groceries and medications to seniors and vulnerable populations. As the Brand Ambassador and CTO of the non-profit organization,‘Arts-n-STEM 4 Hearts’, he enjoys sharing arts, music and STEM concepts with kids, veterans, individuals at senior living homes, and hospice centers. He is actively involved in volunteering at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD through the Red Cross program where he serves the needs of the wounded warriors and veterans in the surgical and amputee clinic, children in the cancer unit and also helps elderly veterans suffering with Alzheimer’s disease. When Dhruv is not doing his homework or serving the community, you will find him either singing in his school and community choirs or playing with his two cats.

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Sachi Bajaj, the founder of Me2U Foundation (me2ufoundation.org), is a senior at the Harker School in San Jose, California, and holds an avid passion for environmentalism. After being heavily involved with her school's Green Team, she desired to expand her community impact alongside other dedicated youth through creating Me2U, an organization with both environmental and humanitarian goals. Led by hundreds of environmentalists, Me2U has redistributed thousands of excess items and meals to underserved communities and is now operating in 27+ countries across 5 continents.  

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Julia Seay is a freshman at Washington and Lee University, and is looking to use her education to help the environment and the mental wellness of people of color. After experiencing the side effects of the mental health stigma in her community, Julia has co-founded The Brainy Bunch as a way to bring awareness to mental health, but to also provide mental health resources and advice to her community in new and creative ways.  

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Kaitlyn Vail is a sophomore in high school in Ohio. She created her organization Supporting Smiles, a mental health organization based around the education and awareness of mental health. She hopes to spread awareness for mental health with her own experiences and knowledge and hopes to get people to understand the community.  

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Samantha Feinberg and Sydney Holubow are the co-founders of Balance Boxes. Balance Boxes is a youth-led nonprofit that provides low income students with academic and enjoyable activities. Sydney Holubow is a senior at Deerfield High School who helped co-found Balance Boxes. She is passionate in giving back to her community and believes that everyone should have equal access to education.  

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