Aditi Khanna

I was initiated into a pre-professional fraternity in September. The fraternity practices philanthropy and education about law careers and fields of interest.

rRecently, I was inducted into the Alliance Against Suicide Prevention; this is a suicide prevention board that the OH overlooks

• It is part of a policy that was passed a few years ago to look over the mental health crisis in Oregon, along with the increasing number of suicides in BIPOC communities
• I was a member of the Schools Committee and helped provide a youth perspective in many places, including the executive and schools committee as one of two high school members

• Currently helping make updates to reference lists used by the Non-Profit

• I helped care for the dogs in the play areas and helped clean areas by raking, shoveling poop, cleaning dog hair, sweeping, hosing down, and whatever else was needed
• I also played with the dogs and kept them entertained on up to 7-hour shifts, where I ensured the dogs were safe and taken care of in a dog daycare, boarding, and grooming facility

• In the summer of 2023, I went through the process of being educated and helping my community by being accepted into a program at which I am taught the basics in community advocacy and grassroots organization
• I was also a part of their youth action team, where we do other policy advocacy and work to protest injustice within the state and city, perpetuating gerrymandering, the school-to-prison pipeline, and many other issues—registering voters in my school and educating the community
• We also lobbied in the state congress, focusing on the session’s youth power agenda

• I am one of the two leads on our legislative committee at youthline
• We give testimony and advocate for bills being passed in the Oregon legislature and various municipalities, specifically about youth mental health
• We make sure that there is proper testimony and support for bills to be passed
• We advocate for youth mental health and ensure it has a place in Oregon's state government
• As a lead, I organize meetings, help decide which bills we will work on, and help figure out our future advocacy projects
• I have been to Salem and advocated representatives and senators for mental health bills such as increased funding for 988, proper training for hospital personnel in crisis intervention, and a few more

• In this volunteer job at a crisis line, I take texts, calls, and chats regarding people's crises, which range on a spectrum from a bad day at school to someone contemplating suicide
• I answer the contacts and help them cope with the situation
• I have gone through numerous trainings to be able to do the work I do
• The training consisted of over 150 hours
• I am currently a lead on my shift, which means every Thursday, I spend 7 hours on shift overlooking my peers’ contacts, along with answering my higher acuity contacts due to my more specialized training

• Captain of the Varsity speech and debate team, instructing in Interpretation events and Congressional Debate
• Organizing the club, managing social media, sending emails, mentoring underclassmen, expanding the club, and more responsibilities are involved and competed competitively at the national and state levels
• Ranked 5th in the state for congressional debate

• I applied for a law mentee position, where I worked with a lawyer who was a mentor and attended different events and civil rights events to learn more about a career in law and focus on my future career and how to get there
• In this program, I had the chance to sit in on trials, specifically of our Federal District Judge Adrienne C
• Nelson, and meet her and Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum on occasions during mentorship programming to talk to them about their careers and the law professions in general