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I'm Akhila, a 20-year old Northwestern University undergraduate double majoring in economics and political science. I'm a bookworm and total poli sci junkie. I'm passionate about human rights issues, writing, blogging, poetry, social enterprise, new media, and webdesign. Read on for my random thoughts on human rights, int'l issues, work, and life. Check out my portfolio for more information!

"I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern. Not because you have an obligation to those who are less fortunate, although you do have that obligation. Not because you have a debt to all of those who helped you get to where you are, although you do have that debt. It’s because our individual salvation depends on collective salvation. And because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you will realize your true potential - and become full-grown." - Barack Obama

"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in a square hole, the ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them, because they change things. While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” - Steve Jobs

Well behaved women rarely make history. - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. - Cecil Beaton