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Sachin Mehta

Arizona

Sachin M. Mehta lives in Arizona but is a native of Texas. After finishing high school in Katy, TX, graduating among the top of his class, he decided to attend Boston University, where he earned a Bachelor's degree in History Summa Cum Laude in the Honors Program. He was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society, Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, and College of Arts and Science College Scholars Honors Society.

 

His time in Boston, meeting people from all over the country and the world, was transformative in shaping his political and cultural views. He then attended medical school at Texas A&M University and completed his training in internal medicine at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center. Living in central Texas gave him access to the state capitol in Austin.

 

In medical school and in residency, he participated in First Tuesdays at the Capitol, where he joined other healthcare professionals in lobbying efforts to serve the needs of the citizens of the state. He then joined the Texas Medical Association where he served on the Council of Practice Management. He was later elected to the Executive Council. This experience gave him considerable insight into the workings of government at the state level and experience speaking with members of the legislature. Sachin has consistently valued access to quality healthcare and funding for education and public health. He worked on staff at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center and was appointed Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Texas A&M University.

 

Here, he was the top ranked physician for patient satisfaction metrics. Recently, he moved with his wife to the Phoenix area, where he currently works as an inpatient medicine physician. He is excited about helping to bring South Asians for Biden to Arizona and expanding the chapter. He believes that the vice president truly has the best interests of the country and the South Asian community at heart and is the only responsible choice moving forward!

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Rohit Agarwal

California

Rohit is currently a Senior Director on the Kiva Impact Investments team leading our USA work. Before Kiva, was a co-founder of an education focused investment firm, The Tusker Fund. Previously a consultant in McKinsey’s San Francisco office focused on strategy and operations across the education, public, and energy sectors and one of the founding leaders and country managers of the McKinsey Social Initiative, McKinsey's 501c3 non-profit focused on tackling youth unemployment. 

 

Prior to McKinsey, taught high school History and Economics at a NYC public school via Teach for America and worked for Teach for India and Rocketship Education helping train new teachers, advance the use of blended learning in the classroom, and develop a new classroom teaching model.  Spent two years as an investment banker covering the energy and power sector out of college. Rohit holds a JD-MBA from Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management.

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Harini Krishnan

California

Harini Krishnan is an Indian-American Democratic Organizer who is passionate about Gender Equity, Civil Rights, Public Education and Arts.A Former CA Lead Volunteer Organizer for the Presidential Campaign of Senator Kamala Harris, Harini joined the Biden Finance Team, Women For Biden, AAPIs for Biden, and Co-Founded NorCal Joyful Warriors For Joe after attending a Biden campaign event in early 2020. Most recently,  Harini was elected as a Biden District Delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

In addition to her involvement with VP Biden's Campaign, Harini Krishnan is an elected AD 22 Delegate and Platform Committee Member of the CA Democratic Party; a Board Member of Fund Her, which elects progressive women to lead our states; Vice Chair of the San Mateo County Arts Commission; and is currently enrolled in the Harvard Kennedy School's Public Leadership Program. A resident of the Town of Hillsborough in Northern CA for more than 2 decades, she is the recipient of the 2020 Hillsborough Citizen of the Year Award. 

Harini strongly believes that VP Joe Biden is THE candidate with empathy, experience and integrity to heal and unite our fractured nation and restore hope to the American people at this moment in our nation's history, and is determined to work tirelessly to engage the South Asian community to help elect him as our Next President!

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Zain Ahmad

California

Zain Ahmad is an attorney, actor, and organizer. Zain worked as a corporate attorney in New York City and San Francisco where he advised entrepreneurs, startups, and public companies on a variety of matters including company formations, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, SEC compliance, and IPOs.

 

While in law school, Zain was a law clerk at The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy under the Barack H. Obama administration where he worked on the 2016 presidential transition, ethics, FOIA, executive orders, and science/tech policies and initiatives. Zain also served as a law clerk at NASA and advocated for America's Journey to Mars on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. 

 

As a college student at Rutgers University, Zain led a series of coalition building initiatives among the South Asian student organizations on campus including successfully hosting the first two conferences focused on South Asian American identity. While in law school, Zain served as the President of the South Asian Law Students Association at Boston College Law School where he built coalitions and hosted joint programs with other affinity groups. 

 

Zain is also an actor and screenwriter and is currently working on a television series. He is excited about breaking down barriers, building consensus, and mobilizing the South Asian American community towards building a more prosperous and egalitarian society. 

 

Zain holds a JD from Boston College Law School and a BA in Political Science from Rutgers University and is a proud alumnus of the Eagleton Institute of Politics. 

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Aziz Kaur Sandhu

Connecticut

Aziz Kaur Sandhu is a second-year Master of Science in Public Health candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where she studies Health Systems. She is passionate about health system resiliency and reform, specifically its intersection with politics and policymaking.

Aziz began her public health journey interning at a local CT health department and later was a Hayley Petit Injury & Violence Prevention Fellow at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford, as well as a Congressional Intern in the Office of Senator Chris Murphy (D-CT).

She was selected to be an Intimate Partner Violence and Policy Intern with the Connecticut Department of Children and Families where she reported to the Deputy Commissioner, supporting the development of best practices to respond to IPV and child welfare issues. As a WLP Scholar, Aziz interned at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in their Office of Business Management and Transformation, where she supported KidneyX, a public-private partnership designed to stir nephrology innovation and alternatives to dialysis. 

 

As an MSPH Candidate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Aziz has supported research to define the term, “political will and commitment” for governments to serve vulnerable populations across contexts. She is completing her graduate practicum as a Graduate Research Assistant for a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded joint initiative between JHSPH and the International Institute for Primary Health Care – Ethiopia. 

 

Aziz graduated with her BA in Global Health from the University of Connecticut. She is thrilled to support the work of South Asians for Biden to galvanize the South Asian community across different ages, faiths, and backgrounds while building capacity for ongoing political engagement!

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Rachit Choksi

D.C. / Maryland / Virginia

Rachit is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University Law Center and currently serves as Counsel to the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he leads investigations into civil and criminal wrongdoing in the private and public sectors. Prior to his current role, he served as Oversight Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, where he worked on oversight and investigations as well as nominations involving five cabinet level departments and seven independent agencies, including the EPA, GSA, NRC, FWS, White House CEQ, and FEMA. He has served as a Wilson Center Foreign Policy Fellow and an Aspen Institute Socrates Emerging Governance Leader.

Prior to his tenure in the Senate, Rachit served in the Obama Administration as Counsel to the Chairman at the Federal Maritime Commission, where he was the chief legal advisor to the head of an agency that enforces antitrust and consumer protection laws in the shipping industry. Before that, he was an APAICS Legislative Fellow for Rep. Judy Chu for whom he handled House Judiciary Committee and Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus matters. Between 2010 and 2014, he clerked in the federal court, prosecuted Ponzi schemers and others violating the securities laws, and defended clients in criminal and commercial litigation matters. During and after law school, he served as Research Assistant to the Hon. John J. Farmer, Jr., former Attorney General of New Jersey and Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission, for whom he conducted research and assisted with drafting of The Ground Truth. That book provided a timeline of the events on 9/11 and the events leading up to the “Underwear Bomber’s” failed attack. It also tracked implementation of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. Rachit has served as General Counsel and volunteer counsel to Democratic local and presidential campaigns, respectively, and previously served as a regional co-chair for South Asians for Hillary. He is admitted to practice law in New York and New Jersey and obtained his law and undergraduate degrees from Rutgers University.

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Rishi Singh Bagga

Florida

Rishi Singh Bagga is an attorney and hotelier with a breadth of experience in both lawand business.  On the legal side, Rishi is a skilled litigator with experience handling a variety of cases, including commercial, contract, employment, criminal defense, and a variety of other cases.  He has practiced both as a solo practitioner handling general litigation cases as well as with a statewide law firm focused on insurance defense matters.

 

Rishi is a former Assistant State Attorney in Miami-Dade County, Florida where he prosecuted hundreds of criminal cases, including serious felonies, juvenile crimes, and domestic violence crimes.  Rishi is a past President of the South Asian Bar Association of North America (SABA North America), a past Trustee of the SABA Foundation, and presently sits on SABA’s National Advisory Council.

On the business side, Rishi serves as a Vice President of Skyline Hotels LLC, a family-owned hotel ownership and management company in Orlando, Florida.  He is also an Adjunct Professor at Valencia College in Orlando where he teaches Hospitality Law.  He has been recognized as a Certified Hospitality Administrator (CHA) by the American Hotel & Lodging Association, the highest professional certification for hospitality management professionals.  He currently sits on the steering committee for the UCF India Center, as well as the Dean’s Advisory Council for UCF’s College of Sciences.

Rishi is licensed to practice law in Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia, as well as various federal jurisdictions.  He earned his Juris Doctor (J.D. ’06) as well as a Master of Laws (LL.M. ’10) in Law & Government from the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C.  Rishi earned a Bachelor of Arts (B.A. ’03) in Political Science, summa cum laude, from the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL.

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Nicole Varma

Florida

By day Nicole works at Central Florida Jobs with Justice and has been working in movement and campaign work for the past 13 years, starting in Iowa in 2007 on Hillary’s first presidential campaign, and then the DNC headquarters in DC. Prior to moving home to Florida, Nicole worked in D.C. with many local and national non-profits and campaigns including the National Women’s Party/Sewall-Belmont House and Museum. For nearly 5 years Nicole worked at Break the Cycle, a national teen dating violence nonprofit where she not only raised awareness and funds for the organization and issue, she also worked on policy such as the inclusion of the Campus Save Act in the Reauthorization of VAWA and served on the National Task Force to End Sexual and Domestic Violence and their Grassroots Subcommittee where she lead their social media efforts. Nicole returned home to Central Florida in 2014 and has worked at Organize Florida, Working America and AARP since returning home. Nicole served as the Communications Chair for the Orange County Democrats and was a New Leaders Council Orlando Fellow in 2016.  

 

Nicole attended the University of Florida, where she first got involved in South Asian organizing and served as the South Asian American Student Alliance President among many other South Asian and campus groups. Nicole has remained passionate about the University of Florida serving on alumni boards in both D.C. and Central Florida. Nicole also continued organizing Asian Americans after college, when she was in DC she was an active member of Asian American Action Fund  and helped found their young professionals group AAA-Group, she also served as the Asian American Caucus Chair for the Arlington Young Democrats.

 

Nicole is currently pursuing her Masters in Nonprofit Management at the University of Central Florida. Nicole lives in Winter Park, Florida with her husband, two young sons and two dogs! 

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Parag Parikh

Illinois

Parag Parikh, MSISM, MPH is the Illinois State Director for South Asians for Biden. Parag was born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago and currently works as a Strategy Consultant. Parag is an alumnus of Northwestern University, Loyola University, and the University of Illinois, with degrees in Economics, Religion, Public Health, and Data Science as well as professional experience in banking, healthcare, law, and entertainment. Parag has also written for ABC News, India.com, Sava360, Desi Talk, and Groundsounds.com

Parag is proud to support Joe Biden for President because of his progressive platform on social justice reform, climate change, fair trade, the affordable care act, medicare, medicaid, social security, and criminal justice reform. Joe Biden believes in facts, science, and morality. It is time to restore the soul of our nation - Biden 2020!

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Binita Barai

Indiana

Binita comes to South Asians for Biden with a very diverse collection of experiences. She is a daughter of Indian immigrants, was born in Chicago, and grew up in Northwest Indiana in an extremely politically passionate family, so the seeds for activism were planted within her from childhood - it was just a matter of time before she reached the right place in her life to dive in. Attending the Women’s March in Washington, D.C. in 2017, joining Post March Salon, and being elected to serve as a district delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention have been transformative experiences which keep her committed to deeper engagement in our democracy.

 

While attending the University of Pennsylvania for undergraduate studies, Binita studied South Asia Studies and Systems Engineering, and she also continued her intense study and performance of Indian dance, as well as began her journey into the study and performance of West African and Afro-Cuban dance. Upon graduating from UPenn, she moved to New York City to manage technical projects as a Logan Scholar with Time, Inc. Corporate life left little time for her artistic passions, so Binita moved to Mumbai, India to be able to fully focus her attention on Indian classical dance, simultaneously embarking on a three-year journey of exploring film production in Bollywood as well as gaining a new perspective on her family’s homeland, consequently finding herself creatively, professionally and personally.

 

Wanting to merge her creative and technical inclinations, Binita returned to the States to earn her certificate in Interior Architecture at UCLA, which she achieved with honors, and continued on to pursue her master’s in the same. While studying in Los Angeles, she had the honor of training under design greats Martyn Lawrence Bullard (Martyn Lawrence Bullard Design, Live, Love & Decorate, Bravo TV’s Million Dollar Decorators) and Bridgid Coulter (Bridgid Coulter Design, Home Made Simple, Actress, Activist, and Founder of Blackbird House). As she transitioned back to her hometown of Chicago, Binita felt privileged to serve as an Interior Designer under Alessandra Branca (Branca, Inc., New Classic Interiors), as well as Showroom Director and Design Project Manager for Julia Buckingham Edelmann (Buckingham Interiors + Design, Modernique).

 

She then began her journey as an entrepreneur, founding her own full service interior design studio, MangoMist Designs, LLC, where she currently serves as Principal Designer. The studio focuses on interior design for high end residential and select healthcare design projects. It has also been Binita’s pleasure to contribute her design expertise to Chartwell Design Group (co-founded by Tom Stringer (Tom Stringer Design Partners, Tom Stringer: A Global View) and Chris Harris) as a design consultant, as needed, while continuing to serve her MangoMist Designs clients full-time.

 

In addition to her design career and being a mother, one of Binita’s greatest honors has been to serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) in Chicago, sworn in by the court to help advocate for the best interests of children in the foster care system.

 

Dividing her time between Northwest Indiana and Chicago, Binita never encounters a dull moment in her family life with her husband, their two young sons, and their family dog, Sheru. She is an avid reader, remains committed to dear causes, including social justice, gender equity, and animal rights, and is thrilled that she has the opportunity to help get the first woman of color elected into the office of the Vice President of the United States of America, sending a mandate to girls and women the world over to dream big, fight hard, and persist!

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Akash Borde

Iowa

Akash Borde is an electrical engineer at Tesla, where he designs circuitry for the computer systems in electric vehicles. Akash graduated cum laude from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering and a Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, where he researched the potential of using hydrogen in microgrids. A native of Iowa, Akash grew up and spent 16 years in his hometown of Iowa City, Iowa, where he was an active member of the Desi community through the Balavihar and his musical performances of old Hindi songs at festivals.

Akash has been politcally active from a young age, serving as the Student Body President twice, School Board Representative, District Committee Member, and member of student government. At Northwestern, Akash was an active member of the issue advocacy group Political Union and voter education student group NUVotes Count. Akash has been featured on NBC, The Daily Northwestern, and by State Representative Chris Welch (D-IL) for his efforts on voter registration and civic engagement.

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Suresh Basnet

Iowa

Suresh Basnet is a founder and portfolio manager of Balanced Investment Company where he provides daily insights in advisory services, portfolio management, and tax-efficient retirement strategy. Suresh worked as an analyst at UBS Financial Services in New York City, and as Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch and Voya Financial.

With appointment by Governor, Suresh serves as a Commissioner on Commission of Asian Pacific Islander Affairs in Iowa where he provides policy recommendation and advocacy to the office of governor and legislatures. As a former president of the board for Legion Arts at CSPS, and board of director of The Iowa Asian Alliance, Suresh was named one of Corridor Business Journal's 2008 “40 Under 40” for his professional success and civic contribution to the corridor community. He is also a recipient of the Iowa Governor's Volunteer Award.

He has been active in organizing and mobilizing Asian Americans to promote cultures, public policies, and philanthropy. He is a strong believer that a collaborative effort of private-sector, government, and non-profits can bring changes that are sustainable, sensible, and meaningful to each other and beyond. He is passionate about helping others the way others have helped him.

Suresh received his BBA from Pace University in New York City, MBA from University of Iowa, and is an Executive Leadership Program candidate at University of Oxford.

Today, Suresh enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife, Kathryn, and their twins.

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Asha Shajahan

Michigan

Asha Shajahan is a board certified family physician. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine.  She also has a master’s degree in Health Services Administration. Dr. Shajahan is dedicated to educating physicians on improving community health through the understanding of social determinants. 

 

She completed a faculty fellowship in underserved populations at the University of California, San Diego. She is currently in a Media and Medicine program at Harvard University School of Medicine.   She is the medical director of community health for a large health system in Southeast Michigan. Her interest in health policy and health disparities led her to intern for former United States Senator Carl Levin in Washington DC.  She was also a senior healthcare intern for the Office of the former Governor Jennifer Granholm where she worked to augment healthcare access for the uninsured in Detroit. She has volunteered at several underserved health clinics and sits on numerous nonprofit boards.

Dr. Shajahan is a 2017 Crain’s Detroit 40 under 40 winner for her work in health disparities. She has a passion for improving health opportunities for underserved neighborhoods through multi-disciplinary partnerships and an emphasis on prevention. She was also named the Diversity Champion in 2018 by the Race Relations and Diversity Taskforce of Michigan for her work in unconscious bias, diversity, equity and inclusion.  She has received numerous recognitions including Crain’s Healthcare Hero 2020 for her dedication to vulnerable populations during COVID-19, the Joyce Ivy League’s Woman of Impact 2019, DIWA’s 2019 Community Impact Award.

Dr. Shajahan is the founder of Dance Medicine, MD a volunteer organization of health professionals that serve predominantly underserved populations who cannot afford to pay for exercise, have limited access to cultural dance forms, and those striving for social connection.

Dr. Shajahan is a health expert interviewed by many media channels. She is a contributor for The Huffington Post, The Grosse Pointe News and the Indian Scene.  She has been a guest writer for USA Today, The Detroit Free Press and Michigan Bridge.  Dr. Shajahan has been featured in numerous news media including the Wall Street Journal, the Huffington Post, The Atlantic, The India Post, NBC news, and the Oakland Press.  She has done numerous townhalls to fight misinformation for COVID-19 including one for Representative Haley Stevens.

Dr. Shajahan, a native Michigander has dedicated her medical career to improving population health. She has worked collaboratively with nonprofits, school districts, government sectors, businesses and Michigan families on disease prevention and health promotion.  

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Anjuli Mishra Cameron

Minnesota

Anjuli Mishra Cameron serves as Research Director at the Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans, an executive branch agency for the state of Minnesota. In her capacity at the Council, Anjuli provides original research and reporting to inform the legislature and governor's office about the economic, social, legal, and health status of Asians and PacificIslanders residing in Minnesota. 

 

Prior to her work at the Council, Ms. Cameronconducted research at the University of Minnesota and the University of Chicago. She also served as the Health Initiatives Director for Sewa-Asian Indian Family Wellness, where she co-founded Minnesota’s first South Asian free health clinic. Anjuli holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Carleton College and a master’s degree from Rosalind Franklin University of Medical Sciences. Anjuli enjoys reading, hiking and canoeing with her husband. 

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Shivanthi Sathanandan

Minnesota

Shivanthi Sathanandan is an Asian American of Indian and Sri Lankan descent.  She grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota, the daughter of immigrants who came to this country seeking the promise of the American Dream for their family.  Her mother was a nurse, who instilled strong union values in Shivanthi.  Her father worked in accounting and came from a family that lived the belief that political engagement should be a central part of every community member’s life. 

 

Shivanthi is a graduate the University of Minnesota. Shivanthi believes that activism begins in neighborhood communities and that successful electoral politics depends on direct person-to-person communications.  She has spent countless hours mobilizing volunteers, knocking doors, working the phones, and talking to voters for Democratic campaigns at various level of government, including city, county, state and federal races. Shivanthi is currently a small business consultant and the State Outreach Officer of the Minnesota Democratic Farmer Labor Party. She lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her wife and their two children.

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Karan Virmani

New Jersey

Karan Virmani is the Chief Financial Officer for Profreight Brokers Inc, in Edison NJ as well as fulfilling the 2 positions of Secretary and Treasurer on the company’s Board. Profreight Brokers Inc. is a Customs House Brokerage that has been in business for 30 years and works hand in hand with US Customs in order to complete all documentation for Imports and Exports between the United States of America and the rest of the world.

Karan has served in a similar role for his previous employers and has been in the Accounting and Finance world for over 15 years. Having moved to USA from his native New Delhi, India back in October 2003, Karan has worked with various small to mid-sized companies in order to streamline and formulate procedures and policies that have resulted in each organization bettering their financial health and being more stable and profitable. Karan currently sits on the Board for the SKN Foundation, a South Asian health and wellness non for-profit organization, as well as being an Executive Board member and Treasurer for the New Jersey Leadership Program

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Bharti Malkani

New York

Bharti was born in Mumbai and grew up in New York City. Her multifaceted career began in the field of Investor Relations where she represented small-cap, publicly-traded technology companies to members of the Wall Street investing community. After leaving the corporate world to venture out on her own, Bharti founded a wholesale jewelry business and established an online retail store. Inspired by her children, she transitioned into early childhood education through the acquisition of learning centers for preschool and elementary school children in Manhattan. Having sold her businesses, she now supports other entrepreneurs as an angel investor in the Femtech space and through wide-ranging private equity investments.

Bharti is a strong believer in the power of education to level the playing field, and she serves on the Board of the Akanksha Education Fund which supports public/private partnership schools that educate over 10,000 underprivileged students in Mumbai and Pune. She received her BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania and is a member of the Trustees Council for Penn Women. She lives in Manhattan with her husband and two sons.

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Manisha Dass

North Carolina

Manisha is a licensed Occupational Therapist and has a second master’s degree in Public Administration. She currently works for a global nonprofit organization as a research public health analyst, providing research, technical, and project management support to multiple domestic and global projects focusing on genetics, psychology, health communication, special education, and child assessments. Though she was born in Miami, FL, Manisha considers herself a global citizen, and speaks four languages to prove it! She has spent time and lived in Saudi Arabia, England, Spain and India. 

 

Manisha loves giving back to her community, and volunteering for local organizations is usually where you can find her. Manisha serves as a board member with the North Carolina chapter of the National Association for Asian American Professionals. She also tutors Spanish to high school students at the Emily K Center, works with a team to coordinate an annual healthcare day for the homeless and uninsured communities in the Triangle, and has worked with local refugee resettlement organizations. Additionally, she has served as a mentor for scholars enrolled in the Women NC CSW Leadership Training Program, where she provides mentorship to a local female college student on a yearlong research project and paper, culminating in a presentation to the Council on the Status for Women at the United Nations.

 

If you think Manisha looks familiar, you are probably right! She was on the recently coveted Netflix show, Indian Matchmaking. Other than volunteering (and making Netflix debuts), Manisha loves spending time with her family and friends, walking on pretty trails (taking ‘gram worthy pictures of sunrises and sunsets), watching (and re-watching) Bollywood movies, dancing, and trying new restaurants. 

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Bhavini Patel

Pennsylvania

Bhavini Patel is the CEO and co-founder of beamdata, a civic tech company that operates at the intersection of social issues and data. Her company built Be the Change, a civic accountability app that allows constituents to vote on legislation and report community-level problems directly to their elected officials. In 2019, Bhavini was a candidate for Allegheny County Council District 8 and came in second in a competitive three-way race. 

 

In 2020, she was appointed to the Pennsylvania Medical Marijuana Advisory Board by Senator Jay Costa and also currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Edgewood Democratic Committee. As a Pittsburgh native, Bhavini volunteers her time on the Boards of several nonprofits including Second Generation PAC, the Bhutanese Community Association of Pittsburgh and Civically Inc. She graduated from the University of Oxford as a Rotary Global Grant Scholar and the University of Pittsburgh. Most recently, she was recognized as 30 Under 30 by the Pittsburgh Business Times and The Incline's Who's Next Politics 2018.

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Praveen Meyyan

Virginia

Praveen Meyyan is a Northern Virginia based Economist and AAPI Community Leader. Originally an immigrant from India, Praveen moved from India to the United States over 30 years ago, as his parents pursued the American Dream. Praveen has spent a decade in Virginia working to empower those within the AAPI community, make their voices heardand to  help train a new generation of leaders.

He currently serves as Chair of the Democratic Asians Americans of Virginia, is a Governor's appointee to the Virginia Asian Advisory Board and is a graduate of the Sorensen Institute at the University of Virginia. He is a former President of the Arlington Young Democrats and thrice served on the Executive Board of the Virginia Young Democrats. He resides in Arlington, VA

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