Passion, Purpose & Public service

WE MUST BE THE CHANGE WE SEEK

If we want to make our community a better place to live, grow and raise a family, each of us has a role to play. The system is broken - we deserve better. Division, blame, discord are pulling people apart, while opportunity remains unequal across communities. 

Purnima is a Hindu, Indian American, with an extremely humble beginning. She believes service is duty -  and has built her life around it. She earned her MBA from Northwestern University and spent years in management consulting, helping organisations and operate more effectively. 

Her commitment to community led her to build a nonprofit organization, strengthening U.S.–India ties — promoting diversity, culture, and inclusion. She also founded IndiaFest, a vibrant local festival that brings people together and celebrates community.

Purnima represents the best part of our community and shares our values - service, resilience and unity.

INSPIRATION

Always inspire with action, and stay humble. Many kings died penniless. Many rose from rags to riches in a fraction of a second. Focus on your deeds...not the results. Your Deeds are your Destiny. 

~ P. C. Nath (Purnima's Father)

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality.

~ John F. Kennedy

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.  

~ Nelson Mandela