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Class of 2029
A.B. Duke Scholar

Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina

Academic Interests: Biochemistry, Public Policy, and Global Health

Hobbies and Interests:
Anagha has a strange love for unmatched, unfiltered side quests. Cliff jumping, ziplining, or tubing? Let’s do it. Study at Starbucks? Anything for a latte. 2 AM long run? Always down. She also finds a lot of joy in dancing anywhere and everywhere, listening to way too much music, and recording everything she does in 2X speed. And inhaling a LOT of sweet treats.

Beyond all fun and games, Anagha’s whirlwind of chaos and joy is one that she finds deeply rooted in her love for other people—family, friends, and even strangers. 
 
She is driven by this not just through a sense of purpose, but through a sense of responsibility to the fields of health equity and nonprofit humanitarian efforts. She dreams of a world where healthcare access is not a privilege but a basic human right, a world she believes she has the opportunity and the vision to help shape.
 
Why Duke?
Anagha came to Duke because Duke is for doers—the type of place for people who refuse to trek on a trail and instead search for mountains to climb. 
 
In a society where it is common to follow a path that is predictable and well-traversed, Duke is a place that first spoke to Anagha through its affinity for the new and uncharted. For Anagha, it was the school where passions were encouraged into realities, no matter how far-fetched or outrageous they first sounded. Where doubts were replaced with support, and ideas were matched with plans.
 
As someone who was never afraid to work from the ground up, the type of place where staff and peers fostered your ideas like they were their own was especially important. It is the type of institution where every student’s journey is different but is still exceptional in its own way. Duke has always been aware of its ability to take student visions and make them a reality - a reality that Anagha wanted for her own ideas.
 
Duke never claimed to be for the faint-hearted, and it is not. But it is the type of place for die-hard try-hards and people who refuse to accept reality now as the reality of the future. A place where nothing is impossible if you dare to imagine it and believe it.