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Pooja Nagpal Named Girl Scout’s Young Women Of Distinction
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ooja Nagpal, an Indian-
American from Greater
Los Angeles, was recently
named recipient of 2015
National Young Women of
Distinction by the Girl Scouts
of United States of America
(GSUSA).
Pooja, along with nine other
young women honorees will be
feted Oct. 7 at the Edith Macy
Conference Center in New York.
“Our 2015 National Young
Women of Distinction have
demonstrated remarkable lead-
ership through their extraordi-
nary “Take Action projects,”
said Anna Maria Chávez, CEO
of GSUSA.
“At such a young age, these
girls are creating positive
change in their communities,
identifying local solutions that
relate to global issues, and tak-
ing sustainable action to make
a difference in the world.
We are proud to recognize
the contributions and achieve-
ments of these exceptional girls
and cannot wait to see how
they continue to inspire, influ-
ence, and innovate as the lead-
ers and social entrepreneurs of
tomorrow,” according to a
GSUSA press release quoting
Maria Chávez.
Extraordinary females are
receiving the highest Girl Scout
honor because their Gold
Award projects demonstrate
extraordinary leadership, have
measurable impact and sus-
tainability, and address a local,
national, and/or global issue.
From addressing the decline in
bee populations and working
to stop violence against women
to providing wider access to an
array of educational tools for
people of varying ages, these
girls are igniting meaningful
change in their communities
and around the globe.
Nagpal’s project focused on
ending violence against women
worldwide by teaching self-
defense to women and girls in
rural villages in Himachal
Pradesh, India, and battered
women’s shelters in Los
Angeles, California.
As a second-degree black
belt in Taekwondo, who is also
trained in street fighting, Pooja
created a two-part curriculum
that not only successfully
strengthened girls’ and
women’s physical abilities but
also exercised their mental acu-
ity through discussions and
activities around leadership,
community service, confi-
dence, and education.
This past year she founded
“For a Change, Defend”, a non-
profit, and spoke at numerous
events to raise awareness
around domestic violence and
female empowerment.
The Girl Scout Gold Award,
which turns 100 in 2016, repre-
sents the highest achievement
in Girl Scouting.
According to Girl Scout
research, Gold Award recipients
rate their overall success in life
significantly higher than non-
recipients and report greater
success in reaching their life
goals.
Moreover, they feel their
accomplishments in their lives
(95 percent), their education
(94 percent), their careers (92
percent), and their financial life
(78 percent) are largely due to
the unique experiences they
had and the skills they devel-
oped through the Girl Scout
program.
FromNews Dispatches
ndia-born Padmasree
Warrior, former Cisco
CTO, may become the
Chief Executive Officer of
Twitter, the struggling
internet company, news reports
said last week.
A Bloomberg report quoted
by Business Insider said Sept. 2
that Twitter’s CEO headhunting
firm has reached out toWarrior
to head the company which is
entering the fourth month of its
CEO search after Dick Costolo
resigned earlier this year.
While Twitter co-founder
Jack Dorsey has taken the reins
as interim CEO, pressure is said
to be mounting for the compa-
ny to appoint permanent leader
as executives jump ship, morale
suffers, and the company’s
stock gets pummeled. The
report said that company stock
is down more than 20% since
the search began.
Twitter’s board was to meet
last week to discuss the status
of the CEO search, which is
being led by recruiting firm
Spencer Stuart, Bloomberg said
in the report. The reports
describedWarrior, 54, as some-
what of a surprising candidate
for the Twitter CEO job, given
that her background is in hard-
ware rather than the advertis-
ing-based consumer internet
business.
Warrior, who studied at IIT-
Delhi and at Cornell University,
was Cisco’s CTO and Strategy
Officer but Cisco announced in
July this year that she was leav-
ing the company amid a reor-
ganization of top deck in which
Chuck Robbins took over CEO.
The report did not specify
whether Twitter’s outreach to
Warrior and CBS Interactive
boss Jim Lanzone about run-
ning the struggling internet
company had resulted in any
serious discussions about the
CEO job. But the Bloomberg
report mentioned that some
candidates that Spencer Stuart
has contacted had doubts
about whether they were seri-
ous candidates, given that
many believe Dorsey will even-
tually get tapped for the job.
Twitter has said it is looking
at both internal and external
candidates for the CEO job. But
until now, the focus has prima-
rily been on internal candidates
such as revenue chief Adam
Bain and Dorsey.
Dorsey is also the CEO of
digital payments company
Square, and Twitter’s board has
previously said the permanent
CEO will have to make a “full
time commitment” to Twitter.
PadmasreeWarrior Being Considered For Top Job At Twitter
Community Leader’s 81st Birthday Is Celebrated In Jersey
A number of guests, including
Dr. Sudhir Parikh, publisher of News
India Times, and Padma Shri award
winner and Ambassador Ruth A.
Davis, the first African-American
Director of the Foreign Service
Institute, turned up at a New Jersey
restaurant last week to celebrate the
81st birthday of Satish Mehtani, a
retired civil engineer and founder of
International Mission of Mercy.
Mehtani is actively involved in relief
projects in Nepal through the
nonprofit IMM. Since 2008 he has
been the Silver Sponsor for New
York Manhattan Chamber of
Commerce. Left, Mehtani cutting the
birthday cake. Standing from left are
Bill Zengerle, son and daughter in
law Shaun and Maria Mehtani,
Ambassador Ruth A. Davis, first
African-American Director of the
Foreign Service Institute, wife Sneh
Mehtani and daughter Sara Mehtani.
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