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Sujata R. Emani had been an advocate for various groups long before she started her Ph.D. in Chemistry at UCSD. Her mother was the first to encourage Sujata to work in the community at soup kitchens, nursing homes, and with impoverished immigrant children in the Cleveland area. Since then she continued her work at Carnegie Mellon with underrepresented groups and women in science and she continues at UCSD. Sujata is dedicated to informing the scientific community about gender and racial disparities in Academia. Her motivation comes from her personal observation of the gender and racial disparities as a chemistry student. Sujata advocates programs that use mentoring for underprivileged or traditionally underrepresented minority youth in hopes to eventually reduce those disparities in higher education. She's been a science classroom mentor at various San Diego high schools in San Ysidro and Chula Vista, working with students and teachers to encourage and motivate youth to continue studying science. Sujata is very happy to work with groups on campus like GradWISE, WISE, GSA, and Bio-Bridge all whom share the common interests of promoting and supporting gender and racial diversity in higher education. She is very excited to have been chosen as a nominee for the inaugural class of UCSD's chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society.
