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I am a 17-year-old junior at Stanford Online High School (OHS), based at Stanford University. My favorite subjects are philosophy, history, and English, and I also love learning languages, including Mandarin and Latin, and in programming, Java and Python. I am also a teenpreneur. I launched an artisan soap business at age seven and have since been part of dozens of children's business fairs and won multiple business, sales, and marketing awards. As I got older, I took entrepreneurship classes, and learned about developing business plans and investing. My experiences as a kidpreneur and questions about being a successful leader as part of a generation navigating unprecedented global challenges inspired my first book, Down to Business: 51 Industry Leaders Share Practical Advice on How to Become a Young Entrepreneur, which was published by Random House on March 5, 2024. Apart from nonfiction, I also love to explore the styles and approaches of other types of writing - philosophical, historical, analytical, scientific, and creative, among others; I am currently writing a fantasy trilogy. I have studied creative writing at the Kenyon Young Writers Workshop, Stanford Summer Institutes, Yale Young Writers Workshop and Ellipsis Writing, among others, and my work has been recognized by the Scholastic Arts & Writing Awards with a Gold Key award and by Writopia Lab's Youth Essay Writing Conference. I am especially interested in ethics, whether that takes the form of deep study or friendly debates about current events. I am passionate about social justice issues in the modern world, and actively work to do my part - from learning to be a better ally to volunteering at a local animal rescue and playing chess with senior citizens. In my free time I love reading, rock climbing, traveling, and competing in Pokémon card tournaments.