Sometimes empathy and compassion can be a vehicle for change. At
age twelve, Trisha was heartbroken when she read the news of Rebecca Sedwick, a thirteen-year-old who took her own life after years of cyberbullying. Having been a victim of online bullying and harassment herself, Trisha knew that something had to be done. She developed and patented “ReThink,” a technology that detects and prevents cyberbullying at the source by changing minds before posting a hateful message. ReThink’s success has been noted on a global platform and was featured on the TV show Shark Tank. In 2016, she was invited by Barack Obama to the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and was the first freshman to win the President Innovation Grand Prize from Harvard University, where she is currently attending.
“I knew I’d stumbled onto a world-changing idea—and ReThink was born.”
—Trisha Prabhu
This excerpt is from The Book of Awesome Girls by Becca Anderson, which is available now through Amazon and Mango Media.
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