My name is Neha Pasupuleti, and I’m honored to serve as your CKI president. I’m a rising senior at The Ohio State University, where I study operations management with minors in global public health and the Dean’s Leadership Academy. I aspire to work in the healthcare management field. Outside of academics, I’m involved in Dance Marathon, the Asian Business Student Association and the SPHINX Senior Honorary, and I was on a competitive Indian dance team. I’ve also completed two nonprofit consulting projects abroad in Siem Reap, Cambodia, and Tangier, Morocco. In my free time, I like to crochet and get outside in nature.
I’m from Dayton, Ohio, U.S., and I first joined the Kiwanis family in eighth grade through Builders Club. In high school, I joined Key Club, where I served as a lieutenant governor and as Ohio District secretary-treasurer. Through Key Club, I learned what servant leadership really means, and I had the chance to lead a school-wide mental health project with Erika’s Lighthouse as we came back from the pandemic.
When I started college at Ohio State, I got involved with our CKI club as club events chair, helping our officer team plan signature service projects like our Teeter-Totter Marathon, an over-50-year-old service project benefiting the Brick x Brick Project, and our Spring Football Game Lemonade Stand, which we host alongside our sponsored Key Club. Since then, I’ve served as Ohio District governor, district chairperson, international taskforce member and, most recently, international vice president.
As vice president, I worked alongside our CKI board to develop new committees, support district executive officers and pilot new initiatives for our organization. This year, we launched new committee-led programming, including monthly socials, Kiwanis family webinars and featured events with our partners. We’ve built an incredible foundation of membership engagement, and I’m excited to see where that growth takes us next.
This year, I will continue to work closely with our board to empower clubs, strengthen our global community and make sure every member feels seen and supported. We will build on the connections and community that CKI provides, and I hope you will help us grow. I am challenging each of us to find that one friend, classmate or someone who could use a community like CKI and invite them in. That’s how we grow, one connection at a time.
We are bringing incredible energy into the 2026-27 service year, and I cannot wait to see what we build together.