Krithvi Rayarapu
Pronouns: She/Her
From: Canton, Michigan
Krithvi grew up in Canton, Michigan, and is a pre-med freshman at Barnard College of Columbia University with an emphasis on community health, social justice, and public policy. She participated in the Racial Equity Council at the Michigan Organization on Adolescent Sexual Health (MOASH); acted as volunteer lead in Planned Parenthood’s National Volunteer Program; and lobbied for abortion access on Capitol Hill with Planned Parenthood. She has created and presented educational materials around sexual and reproductive health and pressed the Michigan State Board of Education for school support for sexual misconduct survivors. She looks forward to getting involved in reproductive justice organizing on campus and to voting in her first presidential election cycle.
“As much as we feel detached from any type of political process, policies affect us every day. If they don’t, and you feel like they don’t, they are affecting marginalized people.”