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Anushka Ratnayake: Planting seeds of changeAnushka Ratnayake: Planting seeds of change

Anushka Ratnayake (College Nine ’04, literature) launched a nonprofit that empowers farmers to combat poverty and increase food security, taking the skills from her UC Santa Cruz education to farms across Africa.

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