✨ Introducing: Women of Excellence Woman to Watch Honoree: Nikita Shukla, Analytics Associate, Clinton Health Access Initiative! ✨ Growing up, Nikita Shukla assumed she would follow her parents’ career paths and study science or medicine after high school. She truly loved science – still does to this day. So it didn’t cross her mind that joining Cherry Hill East’s Model UN club would be life-altering. “I liked traveling, debating and learning about the world,” Nikita says. “But I was also involved in lots of science activities, played varsity tennis and my entire trajectory was science-oriented.” That changed during her senior year in 2013. Her role as the Model UN club’s secretary general ignited a passion for challenging inequities that held back women and people of color. She could envision a future for herself working on the international stage, negotiating treaties and agreements that lift people up. “There were no vocal Southeastern Asian women, or any women of color, in high...