Manmeet Kaur

Manmeet Kaur, a Columbia MBA, social justice entrepreneur, and Founder of NY non-profit City Health Works, was less than a year old and living in Queens, New York in 1984. Instead of what could have been an upbringing disconnected from the events of 1984, she grew up fully aware of the devastation.
She recalls interconnected anecdotes of her childhood, discusses the influence 84 had on her identity as a Sikh and how individual members of her family responded to the massacre and its aftermath, and how her father’s avid activism deeply influenced her own childhood as a Sikh-American. She ponders how 1984 will continue to influence her children’s identity as a new generation of Sikhs grows up hearing, learning, and watching their history