“During the Bush v. Kerry election, I remember walking up to my friends in Kindergarten and asking them, ‘Who are your parents voting for?’ So … you could say I’ve been interested in politics for a while. I volunteered for the @barackobama campaign with my dad and for the @joebiden campaign. I’m from two swing states (born in Michigan, then moved to Florida), and I just voted in my first presidential election. Through @princetonvote100, I’ve been trying to get my friends to #vote, too. The racism in this administration, to me, is huge and morally disqualifying. I think it’s the driving reason why so many of my friends are voting. I’m also passionate about immigration, and my favorite Princeton class was a journalism class with @npr journalist @amos.deb that allowed me to learn more about asylum/refugee systems. For the class, we traveled to Winnipeg and Toronto, and spoke directly with refugees to report our own news pieces. I also interned for the Danish Institute for Human Rights, which works with companies and governments to improve their human rights practices. I didn’t know that was a job you could have! That internship really defined my professional trajectory. I came to @princeton because of SPIA; that was always the plan. I’ve always wanted to look at problems from a macro level to understand the levers that affect people. I got randomly placed in that internship and realized that businesses do this every day just by existing and by making the decisions they do. Forced labor, for example, impacts millions of people’s lives in the same way that government policy would. Working with businesses is a direct way to get around political will and solve problems faster than through legislation. This is what’s next for me: I want to learn more about how businesses operate and how they can be a tool to better human rights.”- Kavya Chaturvedi ’21 (@kavya.c). #PolicyProfile is an @Instagram series featuring our community. Want to be featured? Comment/DM us.