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Pooja Garg
By Debra Hartley
Pooja Garg owns her own business, is involved in several
committees and cultural organizations, and performs in
dances and plays. Oh, and she’s also a full-time, second-year
General College student.
Through her business, Indian Treasures and Delights, Pooja offers
dance and painting classes and sells artwork and jewelry that she
designs and makes based on her study of the art and culture of
India, the land of her parents’ birth. She intends to transfer to
the College of Education and Human Development, majoring
in business and marketing education with the goal of teaching
at the high school level.
Pooja’s business activities reflect her interest in Indian culture.
She speaks Hindi and has visited India frequently. In addition
to dancing and creating art in Indian styles, she is active in
the University of Minnesota Indian Students Association and
took part in a play it put on about real-life issues in India,
Grey Matters. She is on the planning committee for the
Multicultural Graduation Gathering, at which she will
dance to Hindi music and show her art. She says that her
involvement in Indian culture, which includes 14 years
of dancing, has helped her to find herself as a strong,
independent woman. |
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For Pooja, General College represents opportunity—to
be educated, and to be recognized as an individual, not just a number.
GC provides its students with a “huge stepping stone” for their
adjustment to college life, as well as resources where they can go for help, she said.
“In GC, students see a lot of familiar faces,
including teachers who become good friends,” Pooja said. “Professional
and personal relationships develop.” In addition, as a woman of color,
Pooja appreciates the
diversity in students, staff, activities, and
classes offered in GC.
Pooja takes great pride in being able to
share her art and dance and knowledge
of Indian culture with others, not because
of any glory that might come to her, but
rather because it gives her joy to give
back to her community.
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