we believe in taking the lead Developing le aders is essential to Belmont' s mission to empower s tudents to tr ansform tomorrow' s world.
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eveloping tomorrow’s leaders— students who will transform their communities and the world at large—is central to Belmont’s mission. Freshman Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay is already well on her way to accomplishing that goal through spoken word that advocates for social justice. Born in
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Kolkata, India and raised in the U.S. since the age of 6, Lagnajita was named Nashville’s first-ever Youth Poet Laureate and published her first book of poetry before she graduated high school. Her words and ideas are already reaching audiences worldwide with speaking engagements on campus, at the Nashville
Mayor’s inauguration, with Michelle Obama in D.C. and in her native India. Now the reigning Southeast Regional Youth Poet Laureate, Lagnajita is an Honors student majoring in English with a writing concentration and an art history minor. “To create, you not only have to have experience creating, but you