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INSTAGRAM IN FEED FEATURE
12/13/21
“I’m a culture-shifter. I am creating my own world where all my identities are celebrated and exist in harmony. My foundations of existence are ideas and culture, rather than labels and passports. I envision a world where we can all exist in our multiplicities because that’s a truly globalized world, where we’re all global citizens that celebrate and create space for each other.”
SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE: “The Teen Activist Who Started a Global Movement From Home”
12/10/20
“I really wanted to redefine the approach to empowerment. Global Girlhood is a forum where women can share stories about the women who inspire them. Our writers go out into their local communities and interview women who inspire them. They usually connect over social media platforms. Actually, I’ve found the most benefit from LinkedIn. It helps me hone my skills and tell my story through a professional lens, and it allows me to connect to people I might not otherwise have access to.”
POP SUGAR: “Updating Your Status: Pranjal Jain on Using Social Media as the Ultimate Tool For Change”
3/1/21
“Through Global Girlhood, Jain has emboldened women around the world to rewrite the narrative around what it means to be an immigrant, a woman, a feminist, and an advocate for change. "The main way that we use social media is really just to disrupt narratives around power to decolonize," she said. "And also to lower the geographical, cultural, and social biases that we've placed on each other."
REFINERY 29: “Refinery29 & Girls Who Code Invite You To #MarchForSisterhood”
10/16/19
TEEN VOGUE: “All Womxn Project Launches New Campaign for International Women’s Day”
3/8/19
This year, the AWP is highlighting young people whose actions are impacting their communities and changing the world for the better. The 10 activists highlighted include Deja Foxx, 18, an activist, organizer and Teen Vogue 21 under 21 recipient who lobbied against family separation and gun violence; Nupol Kiazolu, 18, the President of Black Lives Matter Greater NY, a Teen Vogue 21 under 21 recipient, and Founder/CEO of Vote 2000 Campaign; Pranjal Jain, 17, an advocate for women's and immigration rites; and Eva Lewis, 20, an artist and activist who founded The I Project and led a major protest against police brutality.”
BETR: “How to be a Change Maker: Let your identity fuel your work”
7/16/20
“I’m still learning how my immigration story and South Asian roots fits into my interactions with the world -- especially as someone who had a privileged childhood. Before discovering I used to be undocumented, I organized solely around my experiences. I was 12 years old when I first created curriculum centered around cyberbullying prevention, and I let my own victimization guide the change-making.”
SEVENTEEN MAGAZINE: “Pranjal Jain is Passing the Mic to Immigrant Voices Through Her Online Organization, Global Girlhood”
12/9/21
The 2021 Voices of the Year honoree talks about Global Girlhood and how she started her activism journey when she was 12. “When I was 12, I wrote a letter to then-president Obama telling him how I wasn't born here at the time. I didn't know I was undocumented, but I wasn't born here. So I asked him, just because I wasn't born here, why can't I be president? I sent like 100 letters to make sure that he heard what I have to say and then, I got a response back. I was like, "Wow, if the most important and busiest person in the nation can listen to my voice, my voice has power."
POPSUGAR: “21 Under 21: Unstoppable Young Women Manifesting a Brighter Future”
3/25/21
“As an Indian-American woman, formerly undocumented South Asian immigrant, and first-generation college student, Pranjal Jain has dedicated herself to championing women's rights and self-empowerment. At 12, she began serving as a peer educator to advocate for the prevention of cyberbullying. Today, she is the founder of Global Girlhood, an organization empowering women globally via digital collaboration, media, and storytelling.”
DO SOMETHING: “10 YOUNG ASIAN AMERICAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER ACTIVISTS YOU SHOULD KNOW”
5/6/21
“Growing up as a formerly undocumented immigrant and Indian American, Pranjal Jain felt she didn’t see herself represented in the kind of work she wanted to do. She founded Global Girlhood to revolutionize representation, inspiring and connecting young women from around the world through storytelling. Through their website and social media, they break down barriers to topics like mental health, consent, birth control, anti-racism, and more. In a time where the internet has kept us connected more than ever, Pranjal is fostering an online community and using social media as a tool for change.”
VERY GOOD LIGHT: “Generation Z Asian American activists are loud, proud and ready to fight”
5/19/20
“I walk into rooms with so much more depth and understanding of how the world works on the other half because I am Asian American. I understand what growing countries may look like. I also understand the importance of ideas and traditions and why tradition untouched is so revered and has so much sanctity to it and balancing ideas. Being fluent in Hindi and being able to read and write it also exposed me to a whole different set of ideas that had given me the opportunity to consume things with an Eastern lens because so much of Western media, and books are influenced by colonized ideas.”
THE JUGGERNAUT: “The Next Wave of Brown Voters”
12/16/20
‘In 2016, Pranjal Jain’s parents shocked her by voting for Donald Trump. Later that year, she discovered that her family was formerly undocumented. Then 15, Pranjal was too young to vote but old enough to experience Trump’s attacks on immigrants. She interprets her parents’ Trump vote as “a vote for assimilation”. Over the next four years, Jain became a digital organizer. This year, a 19-year-old Jain voted for Biden in New York. And so did her parents.”
DEFIANT MAGAZINE: “YOUth In Power - Pranjal Jain”
9/22/19
“In South Asian culture, there are often many taboos in place that restrict people from speaking out on important issues. Pranjal constantly fights normalize such conversations and break down disastrous social constructs, beginning within her home.
“So I truly believe it starts at home. Being able to stand up to your family, and being able to reject those ideals and show other people in your family how to reject those ideals is the biggest win for not only yourself, but your community. Once your own family starts to de-stigmatize and break down those constructs, it usually leads to other people doing that.”
