Prameela Boorada is a social-impact storyteller with an artsy, entrepreneurial spirit. She currently serves as the CEO/Founder of Impact Playground – which is an identity-driven, social-justice education platform designed for youth and a 2023 awardee for the Oak and Tides Foundation x Look Up and Live’s Innovation Challenge. Growing up in India, Prameela was raised on a wonderful selection of fables, mythology, biographies and experiences. After moving to the United States, she attended UC Davis and graduated with a degree in Quantitative Psychology.

She recently started as the “Youth Coordinator” for the YouthLab Initiative by Hopelab, a mental health innovation lab based in San Francisco. She will be doing this full-time role alongside leading Impact Playground. Prameela has also worked on several social-impact ventures. She built an app to provide culturally-congruent anxiety care strategies. She secured a Research Fellowship at HeadStream Innovations where she surveyed the impact of vulnerability in digital spaces on youth wellbeing, advised 15 startups on how to focus their DEI efforts and published a collection of stories from creatives of color. She got involved in grass-roots mental health advocacy through MannMukti and launched a national South Asian Youth Fellowship in 2020. She recently served on Mental Health America’s 2021 Youth Mental Health Leaders Council where she advocated for building more inclusive, equitable, and ethical platforms for youth advocates. She has presented, co-presented, and been a panelist at several conferences nationally.