Q&A: Parnika Shukla, Housing Equity Director at the Social Justice Hub
Parnika Shukla believes that housing equals stability.
As the director of the Housing Equity Team, a relatively new group within the Social Justice Hub at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she gets the opportunity to advocate for this stability in the Madison community firsthand.
The team was founded in the spring of 2021 and aims to increase awareness about housing inequality in Madison and the greater Dane County area. By hosting volunteer opportunities centered around homelessness with community organization partnerships, members are exposed to and able to directly help and serve the community.
The team works with organizations like Porchlight and the First United Methodist Church, packing hygiene bags, working at food pantries and giving out free breakfasts.
Shukla, a senior studying biology and Spanish, is involved on campus as a WISCIENCE Research peer leader, a Wisconsin Waale A Capella singer and an undergraduate researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research. She hopes to continue on to medical school after graduation.
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