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Meet Sparky.
I'm Aishwarya Mitra, but my friends call me Sparky. At my heart of hearts, I am an engineer seeking solutions. What started as an infatuation with tinkering with machines and biology has since become an obsession with innovating through dialogue.
This has increasingly led me to seek organizing spaces over labs and machine shops. Whether in urban makerspaces or rural community meetings, you can find me listening, proposing bold solutions, and exchanging stories.
As a Bengali-American who grew up navigating student loans, the housing crisis and hurricanes on the Gulf Coast in East Texas, I have seen people like and unlike me constantly be deprioritized compared to the interests of the monied few. It is time to bring people in, prioritize human dignity and hold the wealthy accountable. Who can do that better than someone who understands and is experiencing the struggles of the common person first-hand?
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While I initially became involved in political campaigns as a high schooler through efforts particularly focused on electing progressives, gun violence prevention and reproductive rights, my awakening as an organizer coincided with my time at UC San Diego studying bioengineering. Here, I mobilized thousands for reproductive justice and organized students to to wield their struggles to advocate for policies like the city's Housing Action Plan 2.0. Five years on, I have been privileged to advocate for housing justice in the San Diego region while organizing in Columbia University’s encampment as I completed graduate school there.
Outside of organizing, y'all will find me hanging out with my identical twin, doodling landscapes and pets, writing political opinion pieces and dreaming up worlds with science futurists.
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