Luna Ranjit '00
Nepalese alum founds Adhikaar, a New York-based immigrant support group"Though professional Nepalese began coming to the United States in the 1960s, emigration started in earnest after a Maoist insurgency began in 1996, sparking a civil war that led to more than 13,000 deaths and did not end until last November. With the city’s Nepalese population growing, Ms. Ranjit and three other immigrants founded Adhikaar — the word means 'rights' — as an advocacy group in 2005."
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