Sankeertana Malakapalli

Sankeertana Malakapalli is a student at Liberty High School in Frisco, Texas and is involved in YMCA Youth and Government, the school newspaper, and the Lincoln-Douglas debate team. In her role as the Director of Education Outreach, Sankeertana works to oversee the work done by the various teams in the Education Development & Advocacy department as well as innovate new projects to further YIP's goals of promoting intellectual dialogues and fostering strong understandings of policy civics. Sankeertana has also conducted comprehensive research on various topics, including her YIP fellowship capstone on Texas public school funding and a year-long independent study into mass incarceration done through the Frisco ISD ISM program. In her spare time, Sankeertana loves reading books and doing anything crafty.