Meet our People
Prerna Srivastava, Founder & Executive Director, former Philly Elementary Principal, Harvard doctoral candidate
Prerna, mother of the 3 beautiful Zs, proud daughter of immigrants, was born in Patna, Bihar, in her grandfather’s clinic, her childhood spent picking mangoes and guavas in her Nana and Nani’s garden and splashing through monsoon rain puddles in Mumbai. Prerna’s commitment to service and social justice comes from her Nana, who dedicated his life to serving poor patients in Patna, and named her Prerna, or “inspiration” in Hindi.
Prerna has been an educator for the past 20 years - from international NGOs in India and Rwanda, spanning training women’s microfinance groups to building curricula for HIV nurses, to formal K- 12 education in NYC, Philly, and Camden, serving urban public school districts for the past 12 years as a high school science teacher, elementary school principal, and head of elementary schools.
Prerna is currently a doctoral candidate in Educational Leadership at Harvard, and holds a Masters in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Anoop Raman, Founder & Advisor, Family Doctor & Chief Medical Officer
Anoop is the son of immigrants and father of 3 beautiful children, collectively known as ZuZaZe. His parents, Hindu and Catholic from Bangalore and Kerala, fell in love and eloped to Queens, NY, where he was born. He is a family doctor and physician leader who specializes in caring for populations with complex medical and social needs. Since joining AbsoluteCare as Chief Medical Officer, he has helped lead the growth of the care model as it serves the holistic needs of thousands of vulnerable individuals in each of the communities they serve. Additionally, Anoop is a member of the faculty at Columbia University’s School of Public Health, teaching courses on global health, in particular — teaching courses on how to put public health principles into everyday practice to serve high needs populations.
He is passionate not only about delivering on the mission of health equity — providing concierge level care to the people who need it most — but also about developing the next generation of impassioned, mission-driven clinicians.
Sonya Soni, Content Guru & Facilitator
Sonya Soni is a Brooklyn-based writer-activist, community organizer, and the descendent of freedom fighters from her homeland of Punjab. From Kashmir to South Los Angeles, she has worked alongside youth who have been incarcerated and separated from their families. Sonya designs “participatory policymaking through poetry” workshops for systems-impacted youth, using poetry as a template for young aspiring policymakers to infuse humanity and radical imagination into policy design.
Sonya is a current 2024-2025 Kweli Literary Fellow, working on her forthcoming book “The Gorra, the Gringa, and the Muzungu”. She is a 2024-2025 Bandung artist resident under the Museum of Contemporary African Disaporic Art and the Asian American Arts Alliance, working alongside fellow artist-activists towards Black-South Asian solidarity. Sonya graduated from the University of Southern California and Harvard University, and served as a Harvard Kennedy School Women in Public Policy Fellow in Nepal and Harvard Humanitarian Fellow.
Sini Stephan, Content Guru & Facilitator
Sini comes from a Dravidian South Indian family of Malayalee decent. Her journey as the eldest daughter of immigrants who immigrated to New York City in the early ‘90s shape much of her creative work as a writer, performing artist, and vocalist. Sini Stephan is an educator, activist, and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) practitioner. A native New Yorker, Sini formerly functioned as the Program Manager of NYC GREAT! under the NYC Department of Education's Office of Equity and Access designing professional development training rooted in critical race theory. Her work as an alumna of the Indicorps Fellowship program and former President of the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship Association at Seton Hall University positioned her to serve as a board member of Adelante Student Voices for undocumented youth and become a founding member of Malayalees for Social Justice (MSJ).
In the context of youth development and education, Sini served as Program Manager for the Eleanor Roosevelt Center at Val Kill's Girls Leadership Worldwide program for global youth.
Krishna Dahya, Content Guru & Facilitator
Krishna's family comes from villages around Navsari, Gujarat. Her parents moved across Zambia, India, England and Canada before landing in the US. She carries forward this movement in her own life and has been lucky to live 6 years working and living across India both as an Indicorps Fellow and staff and then leading the Acumen India Fellowship. She currently leads the U.S. Fellowship and Network at Ashoka, the world's largest network of social entrepreneurs. Prior to that she was a Foster America Fellow working at a statewide collaborative in Colorado that strengthens underserved families, and reduces the number of families who touch the child welfare system.
Krishna holds a BS in Business from Babson College and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.