This is the story of a little girl from the lowest socio-economic strata, born in Lingarajapuram, a slum in Bangalore India. She was destined a life of extreme poverty, violence and deprivation  until everything changed at a tender age of 3 1/2 years, when her father, without the knowledge of her mother, left her at the residential school Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project, providing education, home and security exclusively to children born into India's lowest socioeconomic class. The NGO is working to eradicate systemic generational poverty through quality education since 1997. Their philosophy is that one underserved child, given the same opportunities as a privileged child, can break the cycle of generational poverty for themselves, their family and community.  Their graduates are authors, psychologists,  computer scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers and more.My guest Vinceya Xavier Edwin is a graduate of Shanti Bhawan, MBA from MIT Sloan Business School of Management and currently Inclusion Program Manager at Google. The podcast is about Vinceya, how she coped with separation, how she took many years to accept her identity and be able to feel pride in where she comes from,  her personal struggle as she stepped out from a nurturing, protected environment  into the real world harsh, full of distractions, non-linear and anxious. She draws our attention to the critical need for a focus on youth mental wellbeing. She talks about DEI agendas of organizations, concentrating their efforts only on a few areas like gender, disability, race. She believes Diversity and Inclusion is  multidimensional, with every geography and culture having layers of unique issues that need to be tackled.Vinceya feels deep gratitude for the opportunity and lives by the values imbibed at  Shanti Bhawan - a resolve to impact lives and make a difference.  She has already moved her family out of Lingarajapuram, she is supporting her cousins and other children in her community, sponsoring a child and has the lofty vision to impact many more lives. She is a role model, an agent of change and the future of our world!