Good Morning America: AAPI heritage month nomination

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Nadya Okamoto nominates Anaya Balaji

I am so inspired by Anaya Balaji every single day. She's 13-years-old and finishing up middle school this spring, and has already written her first book and is the youngest member of our Itsaugust.co team. She inspires us every day to think boldly and schools us on Gen Z trends on a daily basis. This APAHM, I am really inspired by the collective celebration of diversity within the AAPI community. The AAPI label is such a broad term that is supposed to encapsulate dozens of different ethnicities -- and in many ways, it makes the identity confusing, but it is also a beautiful term that brings us together in solidarity. As an East Asian American, I am really proud to nominate Anaya, a South Asian teenager based in Texas, who continues to do work at the grassroots level to normalize periods in her own community, and brings so much energy and passion to our team at August. When I think about the AAPI up-and-coming leaders who are making history, it's not just the people with big platforms and social media followings, it's the dedicated young people who work every day to learn, listen and take action.