Manan Mehta: Opening Doors for Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Jan 12, 2021 Posted by: Jill Jha Manan Mehta,  SDG 8,  USA

Manan: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Our goal at Unshackled Ventures is to help teams with immigrant entrepreneurs start businesses and build faster. By providing capital, full immigration support, and a large community of resources and access, our goal is to help day-1 immigrant entrepreneurs pursue their full American dream.

Pallavi Khare: Unlearning Mental Health One Fact at a Time

Jan 12, 2021 Posted by: Jill Jha India,  Pallavi Khare,  SDG3,  USA

Pallavi: India faces a high burden of adolescent mental health issues- 1 in 5 adolescents in India suffer from mental morbidity. Anxiety and fear for the future have increased significantly during COVID-19. Depression-related illnesses peak in adolescence, just as gender norms are being consolidated. Indian adolescents face high gender discrimination (40% of adolescents girls in India drop out of school) and have problematic gender attitudes (42% of adolescent boys agree to violence being a medium of control).

Devon Saliga: Bilingual Communication for Better Health Outcomes

Jan 12, 2021 Posted by: Jill Jha Devon Saliga,  SDG3,  USA

Devon: You can think of Beepboop as the free UberPool for language learning. We connect groups of students on-demand to live language instructors, in low-bandwidth friendly, audio-only, speaking-focused classes. We’re building technology that enables educators to simultaneously engage hundreds of students in exercises that get them comfortable conversing in a new language. With Beepboop, we want all of the half a billion students studying a new language to actually learn how to speak that new language.