Manasi Gajjalapurna

Manasi is a 16-year-old in the Bay Area working in the intersections of policy, AI, and social impact to solve global problems and create systemic change. Combining her interests in AI and women’s health, Manasi developed Melanie, a virtual assistant designed to support and educate women on menstrual irregularities using AI-powered insights and NLP. In the past, she has built various machine learning models to detect reproductive disorders and is currently working to scale a model that detects PCOS in women of childbearing age. Manasi is heavily engaged in statewide and national education reform, where she is leading dialogue to create equitable change within communities and is organizing the biggest conference for student leaders in the State of California. In the larger realm of policy, she is developing tools to aid gender equity and representation and is currently working with a subsector of the National Women’s Political Caucus to create data-powered tools that enable and encourage women of color to run for office. Seeing the need to generate conversation around typically unspoken difficulties affecting women of diverse backgrounds, Manasi also co-hosts The Boss Ladies Podcast, where she is building a platform for impact-oriented women to share their authentic journeys, bringing together listeners from over 28 different countries.