Nithya Vemireddy

Nithya is a guest contributor for Ashoka U's Student Changemaker Stories campaign. Passionate about baby goats, storytelling, and social justice, Nithya attended Santa Clara University where the liberal arts education allowed her to take classes outside of her majors, including SOCI60 Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Leading Change. This class introduced Nithya to social entrepreneurship, design thinking, and most importantly, the Global Social Benefit Fellowship from Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship. Her fellowship combined a fully-funded summer field experience in India with two quarters of academically-rigorous research. Both educational opportunities allowed Nithya to believe in her own potential as a student changemaker.

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Nithya Vemireddy in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 14, 2019

This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. Post-graduation, day 191. I was in […]