Pooja Birla is the project manager for the Texas chapter of YAS. She lives in Sugar Land, Texas and is a rising Freshman at Clements High School, where she is a member of NJHS/ NHS. Her favorite novel is The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. She is interested in writing and has won Crystal Allen’s Strikewriters Contest twice. In her free time, she paints and plays violin. She is passionate about discovering and solving injustices in the legal system and hopes to be an attorney in the future.