Humans of DV: Week 11

Anoushka Menon “Art Encouraged is an organization I started dedicated to providing an arts education in schools in underprivileged areas across California.  We basically hold events such as summer camps with painting, sketching, and Bollywood dance classes, for local elementary schoolers and give our profits to those underprivileged schools. I started it a couple years ago, wanting to play a lar...

Sanjita Pamidimukkala and Gargi Nigam Nigam: "We started Connect and Compute originally to raise money to buy technology for underprivileged schools. A lot of our schools are used to having technology like MacBooks, but other schools in Oakland and traditionally underprivileged areas don’t have the same things we have." Pamidimukkala: "People online who sell stickers offered to give us their stickers...

Ms. Molly Topf “I’m a licensed California realtor. I chose to work for Better Homes and Gardens, which is in Danville. I’ve been doing it for a little bit over a year. There’s no typical day-to-day, it depends on how many clients I have. It’s mostly been friends and family, and now it’s grown to be referrals … I mostly have been representing the buyer. I’m also in communication with my...

Esha Perala "I’ve always enjoyed singing ever since I was little, but I used to have issues with stage fright. I was afraid of what other people would think, but as I got older, and got more support from people, that really helped me get over the fear. I started an Instagram account dedicated to my singing about two years ago, because I really wanted to showcase my singing more online and slowly I st...