Ghmire

Subhash Ghmire, 22, a native of Nepal, is a senior at St. Olaf College. He is studying political science as a means to learn how to improve the status and rights of the weakest members of Nepalese society and hopes to become a human rights lawyer. At St. Olaf, he is president of the Model United Nations Club. He is a columnist for Nepal’s largest English language newspaper and writes on South Asian issues for the Huffington Post. He is using his scholarship to run a summer camp for lower caste and war-affected children in Nepal and conduct an awareness program on minority rights and social justice.