Nehal Banik - Empowering Through Dance - Student Feature

Episode 10 on Professional Perspectives: Nehal Banik, Undergraduate Research assistant at UCLA, Dancer, Actor, and more! Hosted by Alisha Gupta. Neil incorporates his experiences with filmmaking and his time spent in the dance community to produce short conceptual videos and music videos to better help creative artists in the South Asian community. By day Neil studies Psychobiology at UCLA and works as an undergraduate researcher in the department of Neurobiology and by night produces content with other creative artists and friends while hoping to apply to medical school. Neil dabbles in acting in short films, shows, and skits on YouTube and can be found in many popular Bollywood Fusion dance videos on YouTube such as BFunk. Neil hopes to be a beacon of inspiration and help others who share the same passions as him, to lead a professional life filled with creativity. Neil hopes to one day work as a doctor by day, and dance professionally during the night all while paving way for the members of the new generation to grow as artists. HumanityRising.org