Humans of DV: Week 24

Jennifer Son: Jennifer Son is currently a junior in Dougherty Valley High school, and one of her main activities is playing the violin. She has been playing the violin since she was young, and throughout those years, she has grown to love music and partake in any musical activities. Her music career began when she was first exposed to the violin by her brother.  “When my brother brought h...

Vaishnavi Venuturumilli: "I started singing when I was three, but officially when I was eight. When I was a kid, I hated singing; I was more of a dance person. I only enjoyed listening to people sing till my parents put me in the Bhajan troop, which was just a nonchalant thing. I absolutely dreaded going there because around me; people were far more advanced in their vocal techniques than I was. One...

Eshna Kulshreshtha: “I honestly don’t know exactly how I got into environmentalism. I think I first got interested in freshman year… that was the first time I heard about the UN report and it was just crazy to me that we had such limited time to reverse something that no one was talking much about… I learned so much about what individuals could do on their own, in their own homes and that’s w...

Alisha Srivastava: “I started volunteering for Joe Biden’s campaign, doing phone banking, which is where you call voters, have them sign up and make a plan to vote, which actually ends up substantially increasing the amount of voters that vote in the election. While I was volunteering, there was this opportunity where I could do tech assist for phone banks, and I thought that sounded interesting...