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Monica Peraza discusses with Alisha Gupta about entrepreneurship and how to make your first start-up a good one. Mindset is key!   

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Episode 21: Emmanuella Desruisseaux on #WhatCauseInspiresYou podcast series! Faith Wang will be on with her on Wednesday, October 21 at 7PM CST.

You can contact her at [email protected] and on our website: genzeducates.com. If you are interested in partnerships you can click on the team page and scroll down to the bottom and submit your work there! The Instagram account where we also post many interesting information is called @genzeducates.

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Monica Manmadkar is a senior at Mission San Jose High School in Fremont, California. In freshman year, she founded the organization FUSD Challenge Success to broaden her community's definition of success. She noticed that students would immediately engage in the rat race of success. Over the past few years, she has grown the team and the organization to encompass not only their annual documentary but their podcast and panels as well. In addition to her impact at FUSD Challenge Success, she is a part of her school's swim and water polo team, and she loves to hang out with her friends, cook, and write on her own blog in her free time.

Andrew Stroth is a civil rights lawyer who has helped bring justice to victims of police brutality and impact litigations.

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Anya is a senior at Lakeside School and has been an artist for as long as she can remember. A proponent of racial equity in the arts, she co-founded The Colorization Collective to create space for teen artists of color who, like her, may feel underrepresented in the art community.   

Kathryn is a senior at Lakeside School who has spent more of her time on stage or in rehearsal than not. As a co-founder of The Collective, Kat wants to find a way to make the arts inclusive for all audiences regardless of race and strives to have equal, authentic representation in the arts community.  

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Matine Khalighi is an incoming first year at Harvard College. In addition to academics, Matine is passionate about helping those who are less fortunate. Inspired by his project in his “Building a Better Community Class” in eighth grade, Matine was motivated to do something more to help those in need. Matine is the founder of a 501(c)(3) youth-led nonprofit organization called EEqual. As the Executive Director, Matine helped the organization develop a teen-led board of directors which creates life changes for students in poverty and experiencing homelessness. Also, Matine is also involved in his Baha’i religious community, serving as a Children’s Class teacher, and also is an author for BahaiTeachings.org. Matine is an Ashoka Young Changemaker, a  TEDx Speaker, a Prudential Spirit of Community Distinguished Finalist, and a three-time winner of the President’s Volunteer Service Award.  

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Hana O'Looney is a 16-year-old menstrual equity activist and the Co-Chair of the womxn's empowerment organization, MoCo EmpowHER, in Montgomery County, Maryland. MoCo EmpowHER is a womxn's empowerment and leadership development organization providing free career exploration opportunities, leadership development workshops, and mentorship programs for middle and high school girls. Hana has been a driving force in the movement to ensure that all secondary schools in her state of Maryland provide free menstrual hygiene products in all bathrooms since 2019.

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TeenEase App out NOW!!!

I’m Katie Makarska, and I’m from the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. I am 16, and extremely passionate about teen mental health, because I have seen far too many of my peers struggle through various mental health challenges; with nothing to really help them in the digital world. I knew there needed to be a change, so I started developing my app, TeenEase; which has various relaxation techniques that are clinically proven to be effective coping strategies for teens. My app is completely free, and approved by several mental health professionals.

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Episode 7 on Professional Perspectives: Shamawn Wright of Bridge Builders. Hosted by Alisha Gupta.

Shamawn turns his dreams into reality through real life experience and hardships that he had to endure as a kid living in poverty. He wants to supply resources that will allow kids to strive in education, their future careers, and as a citizen.

Shamawn is a first-generation College student presently pursuing his masters in Higher Education and student affairs. Shamawn struggled to stay in school, as he went to an expulsion school. Shamawn turned it around, he graduated from Antioch High School in 2011 and received his B.S in 2015. Shamawn has first-hand experience with a lack of services and educational disadvantages facing our youth and is aware of the decreasing extracurricular activities that keep children engaged, motivated, and busy.

You can contact him at [email protected].

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Arul Verma is a rising senior at The King’s Academy in Sunnyvale CA, and is the COO of United2Care: a high school public health nonprofit aimed to spreading the importance of hand sanitization. He was inspired to take part in this initiative to address a key underrepresented issue which is prominent in many rural parts of the world. His goal is to make sure everyone knows the importance of sanitation to prevent the spread of infectious diseases and save thousands of lives.

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