Priya Vulchi

Now 18, Priya Vulchi co-founded CHOOSE in 10th grade with Winona Guo to equip us all with the tools we lack to both talk about race and act toward systemic change. Their latest publication—a racial literacy textbook and toolkit for educators called The Classroom Index—has been recognized by Princeton University's Prize in Race Relations, featured in Teen Vogue, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the Huffington Post, and called a “social innovation more necessary than the iPhone” by Princeton Professor Ruha Benjamin. Sponsored by Airbnb, Greyhound, and Princeton University’s Department of African American Studies (among others), Priya is currently on a gap year before attending Princeton University. Priya and Winona have been traveling to all 50 US states collecting hundreds of powerful stories about race, culture, and intersectionality for another book to be released in fall 2018. They’ve spoken at TEDWomen 2017, GoPro, and over a dozen K-12 schools nationwide along the way.