Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Srisindhu Medukonduru. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Hi Srisindhu, thanks for joining us today. What’s the backstory behind how you came up with the idea for your business?

Many children coming from underserved backgrounds normally do not lead careers pertaining to STEM and essentially, they become a minority group in these fields due to their lack of proper resources and lesser quality education facilities. Our team wants to deal with this issue by inspiring an interest in STEM and learning for these children of lower socioeconomic status in our own creative ways to help them make their education a priority, despite their circumstances. Our non-profit is a youth-led 501(c)(3) registered nonprofit that seeks to help make an impact on children of lower socioeconomic status such as ones living in homeless shelters, foster homes, domestic abuse homes, and rural, underserved areas. When it comes to working with children, we create short children’s books with our own stories and illustrations that feature a child overcoming a certain struggle in order to get into a career in STEM. With the stories, we read them to young kids in order to stimulate an interest in education, and we implement hands-on creative, engaging activities as we work with kids to further develop that interest in STEM education. In addition, we organize awareness campaigns to educate communities and host fundraisers to raise money to support these children financially in order to help them whilst forging their own educational paths. In addition to donations, we work in offering care packages to these underserved communities as well. We truly are committed to helping give back to those less fortunate, and your support would be greatly appreciated.

Awesome – so before we get into the rest of our questions, can you briefly introduce yourself to our readers.

We partner with homeless shelters, foster homes, and other statewide organizations to primarily work with less fortunate one-on-one, and would work primarily in the North Texas area. However, we do seek to offer assistance to any individuals who would like to start a chapter for this non-profit on their own in their respective region. We have created engaging social media posts promoting our initiatives, and a podcast featuring coordinators of shelters that can provide detailed advice to support underserved kids.

Can you tell us the story behind how you met your business partner?

I found my non-profit partners by simply reaching out to people I was good friends with and knew I could develop a proper professional relationship with. I worked with these individuals who can help move our organization forward and support our initiatives.

What’s a lesson you had to unlearn and what’s the backstory?

Sometimes, as an Asian woman, I always believed that if I was at an inferior position of power, I am always supposed to abide by whatever circumstances I am placed in but after launching this non-profit, I am better able to understand that it’s important to initiate a change if we see a problem. There’s no need to let your physical appearance or background keep you from being able to more forward in terms of doing good in society, and no one should hamper your potential.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://stemstarsliteracyfoundation.org/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stemstarsliteracyfoundation?igsh=NjgybnptdDE2Mjk2&utm_source=qr

Image Credits

STEMstars Literacy Foundation