Rise Fellow 2021

Kaavya is passionate about making a difference and hopes to use policy and legislation to mend the broken structures in our society. Kaavya co-founded Project Kara, a for-youth-by-youth organization aiming to tackle the mental health crisis in India, particularly amongst those less privileged. For her Rise project, she created “Something Unsaid,” a podcast that talks about mental well-being issues in an open and accessible way. She won a best delegate award at the all-Asian WE Model UN Expo in 2018.