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Project Officer, Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS |
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Female, 23
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United States |
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Reshma recently joined the Global Youth Coalition on HIV/AIDS team as Project Officer. She will initially focus most of her time on facilitating the E-course program at GYCA, and will eventually branch out to include others projects and opportunities with GYCA.
Reshma has a long history of working on youth issues. Before coming to GYCA, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Vera Institute of Justice. She was part of a team that explored issues regarding the enrollment of New York City foster children in clinical trials for pediatric HIV/AIDS treatment during the late 1980’s and 90’s. Prior to this, she held the position of Program Coordinator at iMentor, a youth e-mentoring program based in New York City. Additionally, Reshma was a founding member, and currently serves on the Board of Directors, of Girls International Forum (GIF), a non-profit organization that works to inspire and empower girls to be active globally in changing policies that affect them. For the past several years, Reshma has served as a Woman Mentor Leader with GIF, mentoring GIF's leadership team of girls from the U.S. and Canada, and serving as a resource for the women mentors of GIF's international teams.
A 2006 graduate of Swarthmore College, Reshma majored in psychology, and held several leadership positions, including serving on the board of the Women's Resource Center and as a Resident Assistant for first-year students. Spending time working with girls in South Africa, Jamaica, and several international teams of girls during GIF’s International Girls Summit in 2006, Reshma has developed her passion for guiding youth towards taking an active role is changing their communities and the world.
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