Anuradha B. Deolalikar

As a young girl in India, she was involved in working with various social service groups during her summer breaks from school and college. Her most influential time was with Baba Amte, a well-respected activist. He established a leper's colony to help rehabilitate lepers, who were shunned by society, to become self-sufficient and respected members of the community.

 As a young woman, she spent 1970-71 in Norway in a Folk High School in Sund. It was a small, very isolated place, and no one there had seen a brown-skinned person. But, she made good friends with the students, and one of them came back with her to India to work in a rural school. 

She has been an on/off potter ever since she was a graduate student. She has found it a great stress buster!