Aarna Dixit is an 20-yr old activist, writer and speaker. She is currently double majoring in Global Liberal Studies and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, with minors in French Literature, Thought and Culture, and Media, Culture and Communications. She is also the co-host of the Dirty Talk podcast, that prompts discourse on topics surrounding sex, reproductive justice, sexuality and femininity through an intersectional lens. 

 

Her journey in activism began when she founded Students Against Sexual Oppression, a youth-led sexual violence advocacy coalition, during her sophomore year of high school. In November 2019, Aarna gave a TedX Youth Talk on the importance of sexual violence allyship, and later became a 2020 HERLead Fellow on merit of her advocacy. She has also been featured on the Teen Vogue 21 Under 21 List.

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Aarna has interned and worked with organizations like POWERRepro, Reproductive Health Access Project, NAMI and Planned Parenthood. At NYU, she writes for Washington Square News, is part of the Student Government Assembly and continues her sexual violence advocacy. In the summer 0f 2023, she worked with refugee rights in Brussels, Belgium, under the NYU Gallatin Global Human Rights Fellowship. 

 

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