Change Forward Journal — Editorial Board
Served as Editorial Board Member for Stanford UIF's Change Forward Journal 3rd edition and authored two published articles on innovation in higher education.
The Journal
Change Forward is Stanford University Innovation Fellows' flagship publication, a collection of projects and perspectives from fellows and Faculty Champions around the world. The 3rd edition covers how students and educators are rethinking higher education through innovation, design thinking, and community building.
Editorial Board
I served on the editorial board alongside fellows from Columbia, Erasmus, Swarthmore, and other universities worldwide.
As a board member, I was responsible for:
- Reviewing submissions from fellows worldwide for clarity, impact, and relevance
- Shaping editorial direction through discussions about themes, standards, and the narrative structure (organized around why work was being done, not just what)
- Working with authors across time zones to strengthen their pieces through editorial feedback
- Quality control to maintain the journal's credibility as a d.school-backed publication
Published Articles
I authored two articles published in this edition.
Innovating Across Campuses
This one covers how our team of 8 University Innovation Fellows at Vasireddy Venkatadri Institute of Technology took design thinking beyond our own campus. We ran workshops at R.K. College of Engineering and teamed up with fellows from PVP Siddhartha College, deliberately mixing students across majors to get interdisciplinary problem-solving going.
Entrepreneurship and Ethics
An essay on entrepreneurship and social responsibility. The argument: ethical entrepreneurship isn't a buzzword, it's a philosophy. I look at how companies like TATA Group embed integrity into their culture, and why businesses that prioritize values over shortcuts tend to be the ones that last.
What I Took From It
Being on the editorial board taught me something different from writing itself. When you're reviewing other people's work, you start noticing what makes an argument actually land versus what just sounds good. That eye for structure and clarity shows up in everything I write now, from documentation to project READMEs.