Ep21: Fueling Your Flame - Ishita Shukla

Joy and Ilona talk with Ishi Shukla, a junior at the University of Michigan, who is one of the co-founding members of a non-profit called the Lunar Doula Collective and a current president of a reciprocal student organization - the Luna Doula Support Network (LDSN). Ishi refuses to wait until she graduates to put her passions into action. She is driven by her passion to make a difference in her community and discusses how to keep moving forward even when it’s hard.

 

Key Takeaways:

• Engaging and impacting change (even) as a freshman
• Putting theories learned in the classroom into real-world practice 
• Addressing stigmatized sexual health & reproductive loss
• Support for reproductive health, choice, and abortion
• Paying attention to current times & needs – how to adapt your vision
• Expecting change as part of growth
• Holding onto hope and leaning on the strength of community
• Taking student leadership to the next level, advocating for change
• Choosing mentors who will fuel your flame
• Lunar Doula Collective
• All Options Hotline

 

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