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She moved to New York City because of the easy public transportation and the city's ethnic diversity.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3: \u003c/strong\u003e Luna Ranjit discusses the different communities in Jackson Heights such as the Nepali, Tibetan, and Bengali communities. She also talks about how different restaurants determine the communities that live in Jackson Heights.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLuna Ranjit, a Nepali-American and Executive Director of Adhikaar, a Nepali nonprofit, has lived for 18 years in New York, including the last 10 years in Jackson Heights, Queens. As she ends her successful and pioneering career with Adhikaar, she looks back on her life from her childhood and schooling in Nepal, further education at Grinnell College, Iowa and at Princeton, to her political awakening and her social justice work. She reflects on her tenure as founder and leader of one of America's biggest Nepali non-profits and her struggles to get the organization off the ground. She also reflects on the changing face of the Nepali community, Queens and her own relationship both to America and Nepal, and looks to the future of the community and her own.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eCC BY-NC-SA Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.\u003c/p\u003e"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 1:\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp; Luna Ranjit reflects on her tenure as founder and leader of Adhikaar, one of America's biggest Nepali non-profits, and her struggles to get the organization off the ground.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 2:\u003c/strong\u003e \u0026nbsp;Luna first came to the United States for education and after completing her education she planned to go back to her country but due to conflict going on back in her country she was told to stay in the U.S. She first lived in Iowa and then moved to New York. She moved to New York City because of the easy public transportation and the city's ethnic diversity.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClip 3:\u0026nbsp;\u003c/strong\u003e Luna Ranjit discusses the different communities in Jackson Heights such as the Nepali, Tibetan, and Bengali communities. She also talks about how different restaurants determine the communities that live in Jackson Heights.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSummary of Full Interview\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLuna Ranjit, a Nepali-American and Executive Director of Adhikaar, a Nepali nonprofit, has lived for 18 years in New York, including the last 10 years in Jackson Heights, Queens. 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