#ICANHELP is excited to announce that Saanvi Shetty and Shreya Karnik , online content creators and influencers, win the #DigitalForGood 2022 award for their excellence in promoting a positive online environment for others nationwide.

Saanvi Shetty and Shreya Karnik are being recognized for their creation of “Voices of GenZ,” which offers a rare source of positivity online that provides visual, audible, and written forms of media in order to create a community and platform for students to share their voice.

Who are Saanvi Shetty and Shreya Karnik?

During the sixth annual #Digital ForGood Summit, hosted by #ICANHELP, they were announced as of the ten winners for their work on “Voices of GenZ,” a multidimensional digital project that highlights the experiences of 200 who come from different walks of life on their social media pages and shared their stories with a wide audience. 

Saanvi and Shreya are students from Woodville, Washington who were inspired to create the Instagram account, @voicesofgenz in order to develop a place to advocate for change and spotlight underrepresented and marginalized grous. Voices of GenZ is a multidimensional digital project that has highlighted the experiences of 200 students who come from different walks of life on their social media pages and shared their stories with a wide audience. Saanvi and Shreya have done a great service to the digital world by creating a platform and community for social students to play an active role in improving online environments. 

Digital4Good’s Message

#Digital4Good is spearheaded by #ICANHELP, a non-profit organization committed to empowering students to play an active role in improving online environments. The #Digital4Good Summit celebrates student innovation and showcases the apps, organizations, and communities founded by student changemakers across the US. Co-founder Kim Karr explains that, “#ICANHELP has worked with over 250,000 students to be the digital change they want to see.” Co-founder Matt Soeth adds, “The focus is always on the negative, and we have some amazing youth out there making a difference. We want students to inspire others to be digital leaders.”   

By bringing together a broad range of students, educators, and industry leaders, the #Digital4Good Summit represents a student-led approach to solving some of the complicated issues and problems in society today - students as part of the solution, not the problem.​ ​The summit raises awareness and inspires students to take action through the celebration of the many examples of students using ‘digital for good.’   

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