Youth Leadership Board
The following students have been nominated by our Board of Directors comprised of (PhD’s, medical doctors, lawyers, and business leaders) and then selected by their peers through an intensive application and interview process to earn a highly competitive seat as one of 12 Youth Leadership Board (YLB) Presidents of their area of interest tasked to hold Global Leadership Summits and govern The Share Institute, Inc. dba ShareLove.Fund through their volunteer work on the Youth Leadership Board.
YLB students also hold Yoga Alliance accredited yoga teaching degrees, frequently publish as part of the Young Authors’ Honors’ Society, and are recognized for their fiscal impact as members of the International Business Honors’ Society. Each member serves a four year term from ninth (9th) grade to 12th grade, and becomes eligible to continue their service at the university level through induction to the Collegiate Advisory Think Tank (CATT).
Anatole Baxter, President of Finance
Born in 2009 in France, Anatole is a driven, trilingual IB student at the French American School of New York whose passion for economics and finance has defined his academic journey from an early age. Fluent in English, Spanish, and French, he is known for his analytical mind, cultural fluency, and quiet determination — consistently standing out as a thoughtful voice and engaged learner in everything he pursues.
Anatole is a dedicated leader with a strong sense of purpose. Through his role with The Share Institute, Inc. dba ShareLove.Fund as President of Finance at RYT 500, he has demonstrated a natural ability to lead with responsibility and impact, channeling his financial expertise toward meaningful community work.
Determined to bridge academic knowledge with real-world experience, Anatole has pursued his financial interests with remarkable initiative. He completed the Teach Me Wall Street online trading and cryptocurrency program, and has gained hands-on professional experience through two prestigious internships — in Corporate Finance at Coach Inc, part of the Tapestry Group in New York, and at Marex Solutions in London, a leading commodities and financial solutions firm. These experiences have given him an unusually grounded understanding of global markets for someone his age.
Anatole already exemplifies the profile of a global citizen — academically excellent, financially minded, and deeply attuned to the world around him, with a strong sense of empathy toward others. He currently resides in Mamaroneck, New York, with his parents, his brother, and his dog.
Joseluis López-Sanchez, Head of Sports Promotion and Wellness
Joseluis is a disciplined and highly accomplished athlete whose passion for soccer has shaped his character from a very young age. Known for his talent, work ethic, and competitive drive, he has consistently stood out as a game-changing player and leader on the field.
Beyond his athletic achievements, Joseluis is a dedicated leader with a strong sense of purpose. Through his role with ShareLove.Fund as Head of Sports Promotion and Wellness, he promotes healthy lifestyles and builds community through sports. oversees Spanish communications, responds to letters from Spanish-speaking inmates at Rikers Island, and helps coordinate the annual delivery of stationery, envelopes, and stamps to the facility.
In addition, he has organized impactful clothing and supply drives for student parents in need at Hostos Community College in the South Bronx, demonstrating his ability to turn compassion into tangible results.
At just 16, Joseluis already demonstrates strong leadership—disciplined, compassionate, and purpose-driven—with a clear focus on promoting the wellbeing of others.
Julia Jakubowsky, President of JailMail Program, RYT 500
Julia Jakubowsky is an avid yogi and lover of all living creatures. She is also a great cook and loves to experiment by making various flavors of nutritious smoothies. She loves to ride horses and also takes good care of them. Julia lives in Rye, NY, with her parents, brother and sister, and her two Lagotto Romagnolo dogs. She speaks English and French and loves and mingles with animals she meets while traveling. Her most noteworthy contribution as an artist commenced with her digital art debut in the book ‘Broadening Our Horizons: What can Modern Food Science Learn from Historical Nutritional Practices?’ She hopes to bring more books to life through her passion for sketch art, digital arts, and photography. She loves to take pictures of animals and create abstract designs.
Julia supervises ShareLove.Fund’s JailMail program, she checks the PO Box once a week, and responds to letters from Rikers Island inmates.
Mansi Pandalai, President of Commencement
Mansi Pandalai is a naive yogi. She is a lively and spirited young girl studying in 5th grade in Stamford chatter school of excellence. On the run way she is a Grand Supreme Junior Miss Connecticut and in math she is a nationally ranked math enthusiast. She speaks English and Hindi. She also loves to dance (Indian classical/fusion/bollywood), gymnastics and is a fencing enthusiast. She enjoys painting and sketching as well.
She wants to grow up to be a gynecologist. She is very kind and loves nature. There is always something to talk about when she is around. She has recently taken Yoga and is enjoying the benefits of the flexibility that she is able to achieve due to it.
Mariana B. Dushas, President of Media and Public Relations
Born in 2009 in Greenwich, Connecticut, Mariana B Dushas is bilingual and can speak English and Greek fluently. She is blessed with highly lucid writing skills and can impress anyone with her creative expressions. As an admirer and lover of digital art, she takes deep interest in character drawing, animation and creating original concepts and ideas. She has a sharp eye for aesthetics and trends. For Mariana, happiness is the smell of freshly baked cakes and she enjoys baking delicious cakes in her free time. She is a wonderful softball player and firmly believes that softball goals are attained by perseverance and focus.
She is fond of diving and adores the beauty of the underwater world. For her, breathing underwater is one of the most fascinating and peculiar sensations imaginable. Apart from this, she keeps herself fit and healthy with gymnastics and can amaze anyone with her flexible moves.
Mariana is a great admirer of ShareLove.Fund and discovered it through her mother’s involvement and close relationship with its founder. She firmly believes that a positive attitude really makes dreams come true and women are no exception to it. She aspires to help others and especially contribute toward women empowerment by guiding them on their path of healing and independence with the right education.
Mia Jakubowsky, President of Bilingual Academia, E-RYT 500, RPYT, RCYT, YACEP
Mia Jakubowsky is a multilingual scholar, award-winning researcher, and accomplished author whose work bridges science, wellness, and the arts.
A student at King High School and The Share Institute’s 2027 Scientist of the Year, Mia has authored The Science of Prenatal Yoga and co-authored Gandhi Goes to School.
Her deep commitment to community service has earned her the AmeriCorps President’s Volunteer Service Gold Award for six consecutive years, highlighted by her annual harp performances for female inmates at Rikers Island.
Mia is a championship varsity tennis player, coxswain, theater performer, and drummer who beautifully balances academic rigor with creative expression and currently lives in Rye, New York, with her family and dogs.
Nicole Uy, President of Commencement
Born in Cebu City, Philippines, Nicole is bilingual and can speak Tagalog, Cebuano and English proficiently. She is a student of Special Science Class in Grade 10. In her free time, she likes to write on a variety of subjects which touch her heart. She loves the healing power of writing and
the way one can share the deepest joys and sorrows on a piece of paper. Her writing skills are highly expressive in conveying her true emotions and striking a chord with others’ thoughts.
She is also a voracious reader and loves to invest her time in reading fiction as well as non-fiction. She believes that a book reader is never alone and there is no friend as loyal as a book. Her favourite topics are women empowerment, health and fitness and yogic ways of life which make a difference in people’s lives.
Nicole got introduced to ShareLove.Fund by her cousin and since then she has been a great fan of this organization which puts heart and soul to improve people’s lives and always stand for noble causes.
Vanisha Dimri, President of Intellectual Property Management and Publishing
Vanisha is a young yoga enthusiast and a creative writer from India who loves to write poems and blogs on topics related to beauty of nature and specifically health and wellness. She resides in Punjab, India with her parents and younger brother and studies in St. Xavier’s School, Chandigarh.
She is deeply passionate about involving herself in social acts which can help in empowerment of the downtrodden. She ensures to volunteer in such activities and motivates her peers as well to be a part of it. Her yogic poses reflecting spiritual ways of life which lead to wholesome wellness is one of the major highlights of ShareLove.Fund.
Vanisha takes keen interest in nature photography and uses those to make her blogs and poems highly expressive. Presently in grade 7, she is a great admirer of yogic science and has presented her views on attaining happiness with simplicity at various events organized by her school. She is also The President of Yoga Club in her school and her poses keep inspiring the students to practice yoga in their daily routine. At a tender age of 12, she dreams of publishing her collection of poems and aims to become a writer with a vision of happiness for all in every phase of life.
Yash Pandalai, President of Commencement
Yash Pandalai is a hyperactive athlete who has intensively devoted his time and effort to fencing, soccer, and swimming. Having a curious 10-year-old boy’s mind wander in all directions drives Yash to ponder creative problems and decode their solutions. When not on the field or the piste, Mr. Pandalai leads his Odyssey of The Mind, robotics, and math team at the national and international levels. Yash’s perception of mindfulness leads him to his love for Legos and how he can use his problem-solving/block-building skills to replicate real-world problems and solutions.
Though Mr. Pandalai doesn’t fancy the most orthodox mindfulness practices, he recently began to delve deeper into yoga and meditation, which he practices daily with his two siblings. Yash is an avid admirer of the world of programming and hopes to one day create an app that will serve as a solution to one of the bizarre problems his mind thinks of. When he isn’t busy doing said activities, he is busy thinking of his next big move on the chess board as his sole goal is to beat his older brother. As a bilingual advocate for his fifth-grade class, Pandalai strives to pursue mindfulness and the art of yoga and hopes to teach others the benefits of such.