KASHISH BASTOLA
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Kashish Bastola is an archivist and student at Harvard College. He works on oral histories and community archives with the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and the South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA) to build and expand an archive of Nepali American and other underrepresented Asian American communities. Kashish is also studying American legal history and the history of social movements and working class communities. He is a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow, Harvard Forest Research Fellow, Radcliffe Engaged Researcher. This summer, Kashish was the Massachusetts Delegate at the Henry Clay College Student Congress, a Mississippi Delta Scholar, and is working at the Louisiana Capital Assistance Center as a Yale Law School Arthur Liman Public Interest Law Fellow and a Harvard Presidential Public Service Fellow.
Beyond the archives, Kashish helps lead and teach Harvard CIVICS in Boston Public Schools, mentors elementary school children for Harvard and Radcliffe Musical Outreach to Neighborhood Youth (PBHA HARMONY), serves on the Student Advisory Board of the Radcliffe Institute. Talk to him about the Gulf South, public service on campus, momos (Himalayan dumplings), or about cool henna designs.
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