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Haritha Kumar is a senior in the School of Foreign Service majoring in Culture and Politics with a minor in Philosophy. She is broadly interested in the nature of representations and reality; in her academic work, she studies how narratives, rhetoric, and discourse serve to produce, reinforce, and shape systems of power tha structure the world around us. As a Lab Student Fellow, Haritha hopes to explore performance as a tool of embodied resistance: by bringing marginalized voices to light and producing counternarratives that challenge long-held, deeply-rooted beliefs, it becomes possible to empathize with each other and recognize our common humanity despite dramatically different lived realities. In her free time, she enjoys reading, hiking, wandering around DC, exploring local coffee shops and libraries, live music, and making honey lavender lattes.