Hi, I’m Savinay, and I’m fortunate to have had a series of life events that have led me to gain clarity on my life’s mission: To promote equity and eradicate suffering through peace, love, and compassion.
These events were blessings of both privilege and pain: To be born in India and observe deep poverty from the safety of an air-conditioned car. To spend the first 6 years of my life in Saudi Arabia and then move to the US at an impressionable enough age to wrestle with “third culture, first-gen” identity. To be diagnosed with a fatal tropical disease at age 12 and recover to become the first known survivor in American history. To study engineering at an Ivy League institution and work for 8 years in the military-industrial complex in Southern California. To wrestle with the gnawing feeling in my heart that there’s something more to life than wealth and capitalist success, and then to leave a promising career, a stable salary, and my adopted home to test that assumption. To earn an MBA in Global Economic Development from Thunderbird, only to make a sweeping shift to Denver to work at Denver Public Schools for the Chief Academic Officer. To consult in nearly 20 countries around the globe on creativity and innovation, and now to serve as the first ever paid ceo of Minds Matter Denver – a college access mentoring organization with 100% success helping bright low-income high schoolers earn acceptance to college with scholarships.
All along I’ve felt like my inner compass has guided me closer and closer to my North Star, and as I learn on my personal journey of using radical love and compassion to further equity and social justice in our community, I look forward to exchanging stories with you and learning your truth as we all move towards a brighter, more equitable future.