Finding Her Community
“SOMETIMES YOU THINK that being different is a liability when you’re young you want to fit in,” says Kesha Ram MC/MPA 2018, who in November became the first woman of color elected to the Vermont State Senate.
Ram was raised in Los Angeles, where her parents a Jewish American mother and an immigrant Hindu father owned an Irish pub. She didn’t always view this diversity as a plus. “Only when I moved to Vermont as a first-year student at the university [University of Vermont] did I start to gather strength from it,” she says.
Kesha Ram speaks on a panel with four other women, all elected or appointed public servants, organized by Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership in honor of Women s History Month in 2018.