The Mental Health Initiative for South Asians (MHISA) was created to address systemic gaps in mental health access, research, and education for South Asian Americans. Growing the organization from a student-led effort into a national 501(c)(3) organization with 100+ contributors across academia, clinical practice, and community leadership. Today, MHISA supports families nationwide through evidence-based education, strategic resource development, and community interventions.

We have expanded to 5 university chapters, garnered over 400K views on social media, raised over $120K (via crowdfunding, grants, and venture philanthropists), and continue to partner with foundations or other like-minded organizations (eg. Office of the Surgeon General, Kevin Love Fund, university institutions, influencers, ect.). 

On a technical front, we work to develop novel resources for our community. Leveraging my background, I designed and deployed an NLP ensemble (TF-IDF + custom RoBERTa-style Transformer) to classify South Asian names, achieving strong PR-AUC and ROC-AUC performance despite severe class imbalance, mixed-ethnicity names, and limited open-source labeled data.