(December 10, 2023) On the tropical beaches of Mamanuca Islands in Fiji, 19-year-old Swati Goel was handed a bunch of rudimentary supplies and told to fend for herself. “There are coconuts, here’s a machete, go kill things and eat,” Goel recalled...
(September 13, 2023) “I want to take you back to March 2020. The coronavirus had landed in the United States. Social distancing entered into our vocabulary. Schools were closed and store shelves were empty. Against this backdrop, Europe grappled with its first...
(July 15, 2023) Akshaya Dinesh fell in love with coding through hackathons. The 24-year-old began her entrepreneurship journey during her time at Stanford University, and is the founder of two startups – Ladder and Spellbound. She went on leave of absence from...
(July 5, 2023) At the age of 13, Indian-origin South African Kiara Nirghin found herself confined to a hospital bed for over a year due to droughts as she was diagnosed with Bilharzia, a parasite-induced disease and a few months later with bacterial meningitis,...
(May 10, 2023) One balmy afternoon in 2019, when Charlotte-based Navami Jain was desperately searching for the venue for a college admissions interview scheduled to start in the next ten minutes, her phone kept ringing incessantly. In a panicked state, she picked up...
