Updating Your Status: Pranjal Jain on Using Social Media as the Ultimate Tool For Change
1 Shares
As long as you have a voice, you have power. Every comment, post, text, and video you share puts a piece of you into the world, and 19-year-old activist Pranjal Jain is using her social media to create a community where the voices of women globally can be heard.
Jain, now a sophomore at Cornell University, was 15 years old when she discovered she d spent the first seven years of her life as an undocumented immigrant. After reconciling the truth about her past, Jain decided to fully embrace her identities as an immigrant and a woman by sharing her experiences online. Conversations with friends quickly snowballed into open dialogues around taboo topics including menstruation equity, sexuality, and gender equality which inspired her to found Global Girlhood, a womxn-led organization encouraging women empowerment via storytelling.