Shards of a dry skinned face

Shiven Srivastava

Shiven Srivastava is a recent graduate from Insitut Collégial Vincent Massey Collegiate. He is involved in leadership, volunteering, and the arts in his community. Areas of expertise in activism for Shiven include nuclear disarmament and peace through the International Youth Nuclear Peace Summit of 2019, the #Vote16 campaign through collaborative efforts with Senator McPhedran, and education on social issues from a young age through several UNESCO initiatives. In his school, he is an involved member of many social justice, education and volunteering clubs, including the leader of the UNESCO Club, leading several Key Club (Kiwanis) initiatives, engaging with Youth In Philanthropy, and competing as a national-level debater. Shiven is also involved in the arts, being a three-time provincial champion and national-level French-language public speaking competitor and founding the 43-person French theatre club at his school, which currently holds the ‘Best Production’ trophy for the Festival Théâtre Jeunesse of 2021. Shiven was also selected to be one of 25 high school students across Canada to be ambassadors for the promotion of the French language. Shiven is implicated in music through choir, musical theatre, and his 9 years of study dedicated to the classical Indian instrument the tabla. Outside his school community, Shiven is the youngest member of the Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council. Through this council, Shiven has been able to create tangible change, including being the first to present the ICAN Cities Appeal to Mayor Bowman (which was passed unanimously by city council). Shiven has also been involved in the Manitoba Association of Rights and Liberties, participating in and garnering youth support for Ethics Cafés and the High School Ethics Bowl of 2021. What motivates Shiven is an ambition to make a lasting change in the world; to create a legacy that will outlive him by creating social reform, educating, and supporting underserviced communities. This is how he believes our generation can construct a world of which it can be proud. As Shiven puts it, “I want to leave my depressions on the muds of eternity.” Shiven is the founder and president of the UNESCO and French Theatre clubs at his school. He competes as a national-level debater and public speaker, organizes community cleanups and drives to support underserviced communities, designs workshops for elementary school students on social issues, helped found a national youth-led non-for-profit organization, and is implicated in music through choir and musical theatre. more…

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