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Sharath Mekala

Sharath Mekala is the President of Village Defense, a community organizer, and a social entrepreneur. Sharath graduated from Georgia State University's Risk Management program at the Robinson College of Business. He studied International Business and Infrastructural Risk Management for a semester in Tokyo, Japan, and also conducted nanotechnology research at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After purchasing a home on Atlanta's west side, Sharath became inspired to get involved in community planning. In 2006, he became the Vice Chair of Atlanta's Neighborhood Planning Unit-G--a section of Atlanta that was plagued with an overabundance of blighted communities and housing projects, but gifted with tremendous history, willpower, and potential. Soon after, Sharath was elected Vice President of the Atlanta Planning Advisory Board, which continues to give him insight into citywide concerns. In Spring 2009, Sharath's home was burglarized, and out of his neighborhood of 800 people, he was surprised that none of his neighbors were aware that his home was broken into. Mobilizing quickly, Sharath started Village Defense so that neighbors could communicate with one another in their greatest times of need, bringing the vision of a village into reality.

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