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Speakers
Dr. Mamta Shaha is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at New York University Medical Center, NY. She is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and has served on its research committee. She is also a member of the Adult Education Advisory board of Great Neck, NY. At present she is the chair of the Media Production Committee of JAINA and has been producing and broadcasting a weekly Jain TV show MANGALAM for the last 6 years. Mangalam is seen in North America, Canada, Europe and UK, and also on YouTube since 2011.
Mr. Mahendra Vora is well-known as the 'Serial Entrepreneur' all across the US Midwest since over the last 20 years, he has helped or co-founded multiple successful technology ventures with Fortune 500 companies, and has held senior man agement positions at large global organizations. Most recently, he has co-invested in Vora Technology Park, one of the largest and most advanced tech parks in the country. He holds a bachelor's degree in electronics & communications engineering from India, and a master's degree in computer science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is a trustee of the Jain Center of Cincinnati and Dayton, and is a frequent guest speaker on entrepreneurship, real life transactions and venture creation.
Ms. Madison Vorva graduated from Greenhills School in Ann Arbor, MI, and will join Pomona College, CA. At the tender age of 12, Madison and her classmate, Rhiannon Tomtishen, founded Project ORANGS in 2006. She has led a six-year non-violent campaign against corporate America to make Girl Scout cookies more environmentally friendly, by curbing the use of unsustainably sourced palm oil and its derivatives that are contributing to the extinction of orangutans in SE Asia. Project ORANGS has been written about in The Wall Street Journal in May 2011, national media. Madison's mission is to show consumers, that their everyday purchases have global impacts and consequences. She believes that youth have tremendous potential and power to make a difference within their local and international communities.
Ms. Falguni B. Shah has been an active member of the Jain Society of Greater Detroit for thirty-one years. She has taught pathshala at the society for over twentyfour years to students ranging from ages six to sixteen. Falguniben has a unique teaching style that engages her students to participate and learn through discussion while intertwining the lessons of Jainism to everyday life and creative story-telling from the scriptures. She gained her passion for learning about and imparting knowledge of Jainism from her late father, who spent a great deal of time teaching her, as a child, the foundations of Jainism. She is a senior medical professional at the Henry Ford Hospital. West Bloomfield. MI.
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