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Rose Menichini, 18, tries on her freshly altered red prom dress at Spring Cleaners on April 30, 2021. She s a senior at York High School and bought the dress for the 2020 prom, which was canceled due to the pandemic. STACEY WESCOTT, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
CHICAGO â Since the arrival of COVID-19, a shiny red satin prom dress has been sequestered in 18-year-old Rose Menichiniâs closet, patiently awaiting its debut at the York High School prom.
Now, after more than a year of isolation, the lonely prom dress, and its owner, are ready for their close-up â not in a gymnasium or reception hall, but on the running track outside the Elmhurst high school.
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Cresco Labs CEO Charlie Bachtell speaks in 2019 at the launch of an incubator program designed to help social equity applicants get into the cannabis industry. | Cresco photo
As state lawmakers continue to wrangle a bill to expand cannabis licenses that would benefit social equity candidates, a Chicago CEO is working on the federal front to bring about equity in a different way.
Over a handful of Indian Americans and South Asian-origin individuals were recognized by Forbes as individuals who are bringing access and opportunity to the classroom and beyond in naming its 10
th Annual â30 Under 30â list for the Education category. (Individuals named in other categories have been published in separate stories in India-West.)
Named among the 30 were Kehkashan Basu, Rohan Shah, Aditya Kaddu, Danish Dhamani, Paritosh Gupta and Aasim Sani.
Basu, 20, is the founder of Green Hope Foundation.
In 2012, when she was 12 years old, Dubai-born Basu founded the Green Hope Foundation in Toronto, where she lives.
The all-volunteer nonprofit has worked with 100,000 young people in 16 countries including India, the UAE and Liberia. Green Hope s goal is to teach and implement the UN s sustainable development goals through events and grassroots action like tree planting.