Indian-American In White House 'Champions Of Change'

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 18 June 2014, 01:38 IST
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She will graduate in May with a BS in Biology. She is anactive member of the API Youth Convening-DACA Collaborative planning committee and the Maryland Dream Youth Committee (MDYC). She is also a member of Dreamers for DREAMers student organisation at UMBC.

After graduation, Pratishtha will be working (thanks to DACA) as an emergency room medical scribe and will pursue aCertified Nursing Assistant Program at Howard Community College.

She hopes to attend medical school in Fall 2017, the White House said.US government’s DACA programme is designed to shield young undocumented immigrants from being deported. The Champions of Change programme was created as an opportunity for the White House to feature individuals doing extraordinary things to empower and inspire members of their communities, it said in a statement.

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