Join half a million readers enjoying Newsweek's free newsletters. She is majoring in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Justice and Sustainability. While the AACC has made strides in including South Asians within the AACCs space, I think there is always progress to be made on further including a group of Asians in the AACC who have historically felt like their identities and values have not been fully appreciated or emulated by the AACC, Yash Roy 25, a first-year liaison with SAS who is also a reporter at the News, wrote in an email. Twitter. Her personal collective of novels expands more than 200 novels, reading each at least four times. Infants and children are prodigious learners, but as adults we forget much of our early autobiographical experiences prior to age 2 or 3: a phenomenon known as infantile amnesia. Marcois a member of the Morse class of 2024, majoring in Global Affairs and working toward a certificate in Education Studies. She is on the pre-med track and runs for the Womens Track and Field Team. Joliana Yee, director of the AACC, commented on the efforts by the AACC to include South Asians. She is very excited to build community and work towards a healthier culture on campus. Gokul Venkatachalam, 14, of Chesterfield, Mo., and Vanya Shivashankar, 13, of Olathe, Kan., battled round after round for a grueling three days, edging out the 283 other contestants vying for the . On campus, along with being a CCE, he loves singing with the Yale Alley Cats, spending time in the Jewish community, and playing sports as a Franklin Intramural Secretary. She loves capturing moments of her friends and family through her film camera as well as curating music play- lists about her favorite places. Vanya Shivashankar is a Directors at Yale University based in New Haven, Connecticut. Speller Kavya Shivashankar of Olathe, Kansas, receives a group hug from her father Mirle, her mother Sandy and her younger sister Vanya after she won. In addition to being a CCE, Anika serves on the Undergraduate Title IX Advisory Board, writes for the Yale Daily News, and plays on Yales club polo team. Vanya Shivashankar, the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee co-champion, has been coming to the Bee for more than a decade - starting with before she was a speller, when her sister, Kavya, competed. Dr. Lewkowicz has been recognized for his contributions to developmental science and psychology with election as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and the American Psychological Association and has served as President of the International Congress on Infant Studies. Vanya is also part of Dr. Saad Omers research group to study behavioral insights and responses to vaccine distributions during COVID-19. Veronica is a first year student in Silliman College from Guilford, Connecticut. Among her fellow competitors are last year's third-place finisher, 14-year-old Sriram Hathwar of Corning, New York, and . For some South Asian students, SAS offers a sense of home that the AACC does not, particularly as the term Asian within United States contexts is often defaulted as East Asian. In addition to being a CCE, she is on the Yale Womens Rowing team and works for the YDN in copy editing. This year, Vanyas working as an emcee, helping to announce the spelling rounds and kicking off the Opening Ceremony. After all, some of the spellers were born the year that she won. A zine about Vanya Shivashankar, with news, pictures, and articles. Her older sister, Kavya, won the bee in 2009 with the word, "laodicean," an adjective meaning "lukewarm" or "half-hearted." School of Medicine administrator indicted in $3.5 million fraud scheme during previous employment at NYU, False reports of armed student in Bingham Hall triggers Old Campus lockdown, Families celebrate MLK Day with dance, music and storytelling at the New Haven Museum, 202 York Street, New Haven, CT 06511 | (203) 432-2400, explored, the connotations of the term Asian in the United States go deeper than the census. Vanya Shivashankar, Linda Thach, Labeebah Subair. Whether you are in need of a haircut, highlight, color, perm, or balayage . We feel its more productive to effect positive change from inside of communities than from outside, through existing relationships and shared interests. Maddie is a junior in Jonathan Edwards College. Shivashankar, 13, and Venkatachalam, 14, mark the second year in . 55 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 06511. She loves Slavic folk music, trying new foods, bad jokes, and Timothy Dwight College. Others come from hybrid crosses. A goal this year was to better listen and work with South Asian communities and identities that have been traditionally marginalized to make SAS a more welcoming space on Yales campus, and weve engaged in these discussions in meetings and community events. She is interested in the studying more about global mental health and wants to continue growing as an advocate for mental health equity in various communities. She made friends through it, as well. Because Kavya competed four times, it means the Shivashankar family has made the trip nine of the past 10 years. Kavya Shivashankar Sr Solutions Architect @ Yugabyte Phoenix, AZ. In addition to being a CCE, he enjoys playing on Yales Varsity Football team, attending Scholars of Finance meetings, and promoting student-athlete mental wellness through YSAACs YUMatter Initiative. My work translates basic science procedures to clinical populations, including toddlers with language delay, in order to develop more sensitive metrics for diagnosing and treating childhood language impairments. This year, Vanya said, she feels old. Given her status as child genius, we have a feeling she'll have her pick of Ivies to choose from. Those quizzes Shivashankar mentioned are doozies. Kavya and the girls father are still involved in the Bee as well, and Vanya said Bee Week is one of the few times the whole family gets to be together. Adityas primary research interests include the embodiment of musical structure, and the perception of familiar melodic schemata in galant music. She says Yale once in a while, but who knows," the Beefather says of Vanya. Vanya Shivashankar (SY'23) is a Cognitive Science major from Olathe, Kansas. As for Vanya: All rights reserved. Learn More About Yale Jackson. "One thing that . Yale School of Public Health Jan 2021 - Present 2 years . In his free time, Marco enjoys playing Smash Ultimate, watching Dragon Ball, and keeping up with Ecuadors national football team. Wren loves trying coffee shops around New Haven, making Spotify playlists for her friends, and baking! Vanya is a loveable little chatterbox with an insatiable thirst for knowledge. Natashais a member of the Class of 2023, majoring in Ethnicity, Race, and Migration with a certificate in Education Studies. Anika is a Branford first-year from Maryland. It just goes to show, she said, how important spelling was to her family and still is. -- Gokul Venkatachalam and Vanya Shivashankar were named co-champions at the Scripps National Spelling Bee tonight. She is a Cognitive Science major and Global Health scholar on the pre-med track. I also utilize eyetracking and behavioral paradigms to explore what type of contextual information infants are interestedin exploring/looking at and whether that predicts subsequent memory. Through these experiences, she learned about the deep connection between education and health, and the importance of developing systems and solutions to address disparities in both of these intersected fields. Helena is a member of the Franklin Class of 2023 majoring in English while also on the pre-medicine track. My experience with SAS has been very eye-opening because for me, it felt like home and was integral in supporting an important part of my identity, a student from India, who requested to remain anonymous for this article to avoid backlash, wrote to the News. Originally from the D.C. Metro area, Anika is a sophomore in Branford College double majoring in biomedical engineering and women's, gender and sexuality studies. Kyndallis a member of the Morse Class of 2023 from Springfield, VA, majoring in the History of Science, Medicine, and Public Health on the pre-medicine track. In the fall, some varieties do experience a change in colors from green to yellow or brown, and may even fall off. Jasselene loves chatting and taking naps at La Casa Cultural, repping Central America, and drinking oat milk dirty chais. Such unique words are easier to remember anyhow, the Beefather has found: "They stick in the mind. Along with her work as a CCE, Mafalda is the senior advisor for Disability Empowerment For Yale (DEFY) as well as a disability peer men- tor, and she does layout/production management for any campus publication in a pinch. Child Genius Wiki is a FANDOM TV Community. Looking toward the year ahead, incoming presidents Kirin Mueller and Anushka Nijhawan also said they are prioritizing the creation of a more inclusive SAS. Vanya is a member of the class fo 2023 from Olath, Kansas. 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