Serve in India
Service Corps
Bhavana Nancherla
BA, Mathematics, Barnard College, '02
For the past year and a half, Bhavana has served as the Operations Coordinator at Sakhi for South Asian Women, an anti-domestic violence agency working in the New York metropolitan area, and as an Advanced Peer Educator at the Asian and Pacific Islander Coalition against HIV/AIDS (APICHA). Bhavana has also taught mathematics and written standardized testing preparation materials. She discovered an enthusiasm for development work and women's issues while in India, where she spent time building houses in rural Orissa with Habitat for Humanity, and learned about the Sardar Sarovar Dam resettlements and the work of Narmada Bachao Andolan. In addition, Bhavana is a certified Emergency Medical Technician.