Yanit Mehta

Yanit was born and raised in Pune—a city of 7 million people, over 350 bullock carts, and an incalculable number of street vendors. He has always been an urbanist, constantly energized by human interactions. Nothing more energizing than the moments shared with the brilliant students at 826 Valencia. He sees his life in America as a topsy-turvy Ulysses-esque journey (the California version). He moved here as a doe-eyed eighteen-year-old studying Film, English, and Comparative Literature at UC Irvine. He made some life-long friends in Orange County but knew it wasn’t his perennial home. Consequently, he was pulled to the eerie fog and Monterey Cypress of San Francisco like a moth to a flame. Now you can find him running marathons, sketching portraits, or sticking googly eyes around the city he loves most.