Nandini Sattiraju

Non-Profit:

Founder of Non-profit organization, Youth Sparks.

 

Youth Spark’s mission is to transform the lives of many children around the world; Provide opportunities to learn, support their health, well-being, and upheld their fundamental rights. Strive to make an impact in their lives through quality education.

 

Youth Spark Initiatives:

• Advocacy for children by ensuring that kids can grow, play, and learn in healthy, safe, and fun environments

• Support kids and provide opportunities to learn at schools and make an impact in their lives through quality education

• Organize fundraising events in support of children’s health, well-being, and their fundamental rights

• Partner with global organizations (UNICEF, USA) and volunteer in the local communities to help ensure that every child is safe, healthy, and has access to a quality education

• Coordinate our efforts with towns and local clubs to promote the well-being of children in the local community

 

Conferences and Workshops:

Conferences:

• Association of Independent schools in New England (AISNE)

• High School Students of Color (2023 and 2024)

 

Workshops:

• Affirming identity and Experience through story exchange (2024)

• Leading Based on your Personality (2024)

• Our Journeys: Resistance, Hope, and Struggle in Transitions to Predominantly White Institutions (2023)

• Identity Collage (2023)

 

Conferences:

• Asian American Footsteps Conference (AAFC)

 

Workshops:

• You Look Like...: Our Experiences at PWIs (2024)

• Asians: The World's Biggest Inside Joke (Hosted and Lead the Workshop) (2024)

• Relax Asian Art (2023)

• Nationhood through Asian Cinema (2023)

• Between Two Worlds: Exploring Asian American Cultural Dissonance (2023)​

Research:

The Philosophy of the Mind - This research is about philosophy and cognitive science to investigate the nature of mind, consciousness and cognition. These two ideas are heavily debated, mainly to get an understanding about free will, and therefore, moral responsibility, which is when people are held responsible for the actions that they committed, based on whether the action is moral or not. My research mainly focuses on interpreting scientific experiments or on issues that are more philosophical.

High School Clubs and Leadership:​

• Asian Student Alliance (ASA): Leader (2024-25), Club member (2022-23)

• Student Equity and Inclusion Committee: Student Leader, Selected by the Community and Multicultural Development Office (2022-25)

• People of Color Coalition (PoCC): Club member (2022-25)

• Women Empowered (WE): Club member (2022-25)

• Gender Sexuality Alliance (GSA): Club member (2022-25)

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Activities in School:

Technical Theater:

Stage Crew during Fall Play - 1 Year

Assistant Stage Manager during the Winter Musical -  2 Years

Stage Manager during the Fall Play - 2 Years

Varsity Track & Field - 2 Years

Volunteered at "Open House Food Pantry - 1 Year

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Activities outside the School:

Indian Classical Dance at Triveni School of Dance, Brookline, MA - (2014-2024)

Chinmaya Mission, Boston: Bala Vihar program - A value based education through a specially designed curriculum - A forum to discuss, debate, and understand the wisdom, simulate independent thinking, and increase the awareness of inherent potential of an individual.