Departments

Connect Me's five departments focus on handling specific pieces of the organization's infrastructure to ensure that Connect Me succeeds in achieving its mission of supporting the community through free tutoring and mentoring. Each board member below dedicates an exceptional amount of time and effort to fulfill their essential role in the organization.

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Operations

Nivedita Ravi
Chair

Nivedita Ravi is a sophomore at Dunlap High School. Aside from tutoring, she has always had an interest in psychology and aspires to become a child or forensic psychologist in the future. She also enjoys reading, biking, and listening to music.

Akul Gunukula
Deputy Chair

Akul Gunukula is a junior at Troy High School. Aside from his work in Connect Me, Akul has a passion for mathematics, enjoys competing in robotics, and likes hanging out with friends and family.

Farzeen Fazili
Team Member

Farzeen is a freshman at the University of Toledo's Direct Medical Program. Though an aspiring, bright physician, Farzeen also loves volunteering his time to Connect Me in running the Operations Committee.

Ritvik Ellendula
Team Member

My name is Ritvik Ellendula and I love helping other people at any opportunity I can! I have a massive passion for tutoring and love when students understand concepts!

Brooke Quintana
Team Member

Brooke is a sophomore at Steinbrenner High School. She loves working with kids and spends her time as a camp counselor over the summer. She aspires to be an engineer and loves science and math. During her free time, she enjoys playing piano, tennis, reading, and robotics.

Joshveer Grewal
Team Member

Hi, my name is Josh and I love helping others out! I want to make learning a fun and enjoyable experience. I have earned multiple state levels awards for topics dealing with STEM and am looking forward to grow with you!

Admissions

Camille Johnson
Chair

Camille Johnson is a senior at Renaissance High School. Outside of school, she is involved in her robotics team and Minds Matter Detroit.

Meghana Ramoju
Deputy Chair

Meghana Ramoju is an 12th grader at Dunlap High School. She joined Connect Me to help nurture the growth of students during and after the pandemic, and is currently the Chair of the Media Department, Deputy Chair of the Admissions Department, and the Director of Applications. During her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, drawing, painting, reading, chess, and dancing. 

Mehak Banga
Team Member

Mehak Banga is a senior at Dunlap High School. She is out-going, helpful, passionate, and inquisitive, aspiring to undertake various challenges, learn, and develop a stronger community.

Ayah Al-Omar
Team Member

Ayah Al-Omar is a junior at Morgantown High School. She enjoys going on runs/walks, painting and reading.

Eeshan Khandelwal
Team Member

Hi, my name is Eeshan and I am a tutor at ConnectMe. I like teaching different subjects like math and science to students. I have a lot of teaching experience as I have mentored 4 robotics teams and teach at Mathnasium, and have gathered 50 hours at Connect Me. I also like music and playing the piano and trombone, watching football, and flying.

Ashwath Palavalli
Team Member

My name is Ashwath Palavalli, and I'm a junior in high school. I love swimming, Chinese Honors Society, and playing sports. I also compete in Speech and Debate, FBLA, and swim meets.

Diya Patel
Team Member

Diya Patel is a 10th grader at Riverview High School who she enjoys reading and swimming during her free time. She joined Connect Me to pursue her passion of helping others and develop new skills and experience. She is also interested in the field of medicine and aspires to have a career in it.

Akash Bolneni
Team Member

Akash Bolneni is a junior at Troy High School. Outside of Connect Me, Akash enjoys various activities such as robotics, programming, and investing in the stock market. Akash has a passion for engineering and wants to pursue it in the future.

Nivedita Ravi
Team Member

I am currently in 10th grade in Dunlap High School and a member of the Admissions Committee. I joined Connect Me in late March 2021. I love to read and I hope to have a career in psychology.

Abhi Attaluri
Team Member

Abhinav Attaluri is a junior at Northville High School. He joined Connect Me to help tutor students so that they can grow in the various subjects such as math, english, and science. Outside of Connect Me, Abhinav enjoys HOSA, DECA, playing tennis, and hanging out with friends.

Saitej Velaga
Team Member

Saitej Velaga is an 11th grade student at Northville High School. He enjoys running Track and Field and Applied Sciences as extracurricular activities. His goal is to pursue a college education in Computer Science.

Fundraising

Emir Tascioglu
Chair

Emir Tascioglu is a 10th grader at Northville High School. He entered the Connect Me team due to his passion for not only helping other fellow students, but also for developing marketing and business skills. In his free time, Emir enjoys exercising, dabbling in the stock market, and playing soccer.

Kunaal Kapila
Deputy Chair

Kunaal Kapila is a senior at Northville High School who is interested in finance and sustainability. He is the founder of the TEDx and Circular Economy clubs at Northville, and he also participates in clubs such as DECA and Rotary.

Partnerships

Quinn Cassar
Chair

Quinn Cassar is a senior at Northville High School. He loves to help others and belives Connect Me is a great way to achieve that. He loves to play board games with his friends, play tennis, and play the violin. His favorite subjects are math and science and he hopes to pursue those fields in college.

Srihari Hebbar
Deputy Chair

Srihari Hebbar is an 11th grade student at Northville High School who enjoys Robotics, DECA, and Science Olympiad as extracurricular activities. Outside of school, he enjoys traveling and seeing family.

Pranaya Ramesh
Team Member

Pranaya Ramesh is a sophomore at Dunlap High School, Illinois. Pranaya loves playing tennis, and has aspirations to pursue the medical career in her future years.

Shikha Agarwal
Team Member

Shikha Agarwal is a sophomore at Dunlap High School who loves to be outdoors, play tennis, hangout with friends, and spend time with family. Her goal is to always try her best, help others, and have fun in whatever she takes part in!

Advertising

Kaustuv Mukherjee
Chair

Kaustuv Mukherjee is a senior at Northville High School. He joined Connect Me to nurture his passion for teaching. He has much experience in the tutoring field, and has a firm knowledge of the core classes up to the high school level. In his free time, he enjoys browsing YouTube, bowling, and sketching.

Kate Snowdon
Deputy Chair

Kate Snowdon is a rising junior at Stevenson High School in Livonia, Michigan. In her free time, she enjoys playing chess and guitar.

Kunaal Kapila
Team Member

Kunaal Kapila is a senior at Northville High School who is interested in finance and sustainability. He is the founder of the TEDx and Circular Economy clubs at Northville, and he also participates in clubs such as DECA and Rotary.

Hasini Anand
Team Member

Hasini Anand is a rising freshman at WIHI who joined Connect Me as a way to reach her community and make a greater impact. She is very involved with her school, through clubs such as Student Government and NJHS. In her down time, she enjoys swimming, painting and reading!

Media

Meghana Ramoju
Chair

Meghana Ramoju is an 12th grader at Dunlap High School. She joined Connect Me to help nurture the growth of students during and after the pandemic, and is currently the Chair of the Media Department, Deputy Chair of the Admissions Department, and the Director of Applications. During her free time, she enjoys playing tennis, drawing, painting, reading, chess, and dancing. 

Aarav Shah
Deputy Chair

I am an ambitious rising senior at Northville High School. I enjoy programming and computer science, and I have won national medals through Science Olympiad. I enjoy tutoring with Connect Me!

Charan Devarapalli
TikTok Director

My name is Charan, I am a senior at Northville High School, and I'm passionate about extracurriculars such as tennis and track. I enjoy helping people and love making Tiktoks, so joining the Media Department is like hitting 2 birds with 1 stone. 

Meg Roney
Blogger

Meg Roney is a senior in high school, participating in various extracurricular activities, including Spanish Honors Society, Tennis, and Detroit Metropolitan Youth Symphony.

Nabiha Hoque
Blogger

My name is Nabiha, I'm a Junior at Thomas Edison CTE High School, and I am one of the Connect Me bloggers. I help the Media Committee publish useful blogs about a character trait that we hope to help people grow and learn from!

Mia Lu
Blogger

Mia is a senior who has joined the Connect Me Media Department due to her passion for writing. She hopes she can make a positive impact on readers around the world!

Sameeha Akhtar
Reporter & Instagram Director

Hello! My name is Sameeha and I’m the Reporter for Connect Me! I’m a rising senior at Salem High School, and in my free time, I enjoy hanging out with my friends and reading!

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