The Harvard Gazette

Sonya Soni

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Harvard Divinity School student Sonya Soni's views on faith broadened while at the University. “Now, I wonder how I could separate spirituality from social justice,” she said. Soni is deferring med school, but taking her lessons with her everywhere: from the Indian orphanage her great-grandmother founded, to spending a year as a health policy adviser to Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker.

Family values, in an orphanage

At the Divinity School, Soni built on a service ethos that spans generations

Campus|

DateMay 24, 2012

Sonya Soni (left), who is studying the moral economy of global health and human rights for orphaned children in India, is one of the students featured in the document "Keep a Child Alive," which airs throughout December on Showtime.

Divinity School student in documentary

‘Child Alive’ follows group to South Africa where they help orphans

World|

DateDecember 7, 2011March 19, 2019