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Dharaa Rathi
Strategy & Service Design @ NewYork-Presbyterian
Dharaa Rathi is a well-educated professional who has a diverse range of experiences and honed her skills throughout her career. She has excelled in multiple fields, including technology, entrepreneurship, marketing, and finance. Dharaa is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
Dharaa has worked as a software engineer at companies like Yelp and Dropbox, where she gained experience in programming languages like Python and Java. As an entrepreneur, she co-founded and served as the CEO of GreyAtom, a technology education company that focuses on providing high-quality education in fields like data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. She also served as a Global Shaper at the World Economic Forum, where she worked on initiatives related to youth development and environmental protection.
Dharaa has a strong marketing and finance background as well. She worked as a marketing manager at Bain & Company and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. With her diverse range of skills and experiences, Dharaa is currently serving as a partner at True Ventures, a venture capital firm located in San Francisco, California.
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I'm so excited to share that I've been published in "The Call for Corporate Action: NYU Stern Student Voices, Vol. 6, Spring 2019!" My paper is titled Black Imprisonment Ends With Black Employment, & was written in my freshman year Business and Society course. It focuses on how black communities in Chicago can independently rebuild even while mandatory minimum laws continue to foster a cycle of incarceration.
This essay was truly a labor of love, inspired by the seemingly playful lyrics masking true stories of drug-related imprisonment in popular rap music (ex. We Don't Care by Kanye West). After years of not paying attention to these words, the Black Lives Matter movement opened my eyes to the deeper meaning of the stories I had ignorantly sung along to. I can never truly know the pain of the African-American experience, but since then, I knew that turning a blind eye to the destabilizing effects of racist policies was not the way to move forward.
I am incredibly grateful to Prof. Robert Lyon for guiding me through the process of putting my frustration into words, and to Prof. Jeffrey Younger for selecting my essay!
I hope this paper sheds light on the realities of the War on Drugs, and the incredible imperative we have as young people to make positive change.
