Youth Board

Priya Bhatt (Portland, Oregon)
Sunil Garg (Beaverton, Oregon)
Shilpa Joshi (Portland, Oregon)
Bhayrav Patel (Tigard, Oregon)
Aparna Shrivastava (Tigard, Oregon)
Jacquie Smyth (Portland, Oregon)

Governing Board

Hemakshi Adke (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
Sheila Bhatt (Portland, Oregon)
Damodar Kumandan (Camas, Washington)
Shubha Joshi (Portland, Oregon)
Shailu Pasumamula (Portland, Oregon)
Pareen Patel (Lake Oswego, Oregon)
Easwaran Vaidyanathan (Portland, Oregon)

Alumni (now in college)

These four volunteers were part of the founding board in 2001. It is their dedication to REAL and its mission that shaped REAL as it is today. We wish them well!

Seema Auluck
Bharath Kumandan
Ruchi Rikhi
Anay Shah

In India

A special thanks to our volunteer partners in India, for taking our mission to the finish line. Your dedication to the children and their future is inspiring.

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Other Volunteers/Supporters

REAL would like to thank:

Past Youth Directors: Priya Bhardwaj, Zubin Desai, Alok Mistry, Nina Murthy, Akshay Patel, Mira Shah, Rohit Shah, Shweta Shah
Past Governing Board Member: Anju Auluck
Chhavi Agarwal for her artistic talent and help with our logo
Shirsh Gupta for helping us write our Bylaws
Lalit and Laxmi for website assistance
Chandramouli Seetharaman for volunteering to teach 2 sessions of yoga classes
India Cultural Association (ICA) for organizing the annual India Festival in Portland.
Gujarati Samaj for organizing Navratri.
Youth volunteers who help sell cotton candy and drinks at ICA's India Festival
Gujarati Samaj youth volunteers who help sell water at Navratri
Parents of youth volunteers for your support

And finally, thanks to our donors and supporters for joining hands with us. Together we will make a difference.