Kavindya Thennakoon, building a brighter world

She came to Wellesley from Sri Lanka, where she founded Without Borders, a nonprofit that turns unused rural spaces into IdeaLabs—community hubs offering education, employment, and entrepreneurial opportunities. At Wellesley, she took an internship at Ogilvy & Mather, spent her junior year at the University of Oxford, and served as a civic entertainment researcher at MIT’s Media Lab. Kavi is now a curriculum engineer at 2U. The kicker is that she applied to Wellesley after meeting an alumna at the UN Youth Advisory Panel. Class of 2019.