Dr. Sparsha Saha

From the moment I became self-aware, I discovered I have two great loves which could sustain me as if water or food: animals and music. Unfortunately, I was socialized to chase "more legitimate" work and not question how my food was created, even as I consumed animal products while feeling guilt about it. My origin story started when my family disowned me (for my choice of partner). The rupture was a chance to rebuild myself from the ground up. The expansion of my moral concern, then, was simply a 'going backward' to my childhood, not a linear progress. It was a realization of who I am and who I was always supposed to be.