OUR JOURNEY: TRANSFORMING THE DRIVING CULTURE
The Shreya R. Dixit Memorial Foundation educates, inspires and mobilizes grassroots communities to adopt distraction-free driving behaviors
+14 Years
Building Distraction-free Communities
+3000
Active Youth Engagements
+200
Corporate & Legislature Talks/Presentations
2007
Lost Shreya on November 1, 2007
Established Shreya R. Dixit Memorial Foundation
2008
Youth & Community Engagement
-Organized the 1st Raksha 5K & Vigil for Distraction-free Driving
-Started to deliver talks at high schools, and safety forums
-Deliver Talk at High Schools & Safety Forums
2013
Created Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
-An intelligent distant learning tool
-Educates teens about distracted driving
-Customizable for user’s learning style and maturity level
2016
Released book: ONE SPLIT SECOND
-US Senator Amy Klobuchar wrote the foreword for the highly researched book
-Proposed a Peer-to-Peer Influence model for instilling distraction-free behaviors among teens
2016-2019
Transformed the model into a strategy for execution
-Designed the ‘Educate/Incentivize/Act’ strategy
-Executed by establishing Distraction-free Life Clubs at high schools entirely run by student leaders
-Implemented another program: Drivers-in Making with Distraction-free Life Club members mentoring elementary school kids about the topic of distracted driving
2020 and beyond
Started Summer Internship Program
- In the midst of the COVID crisis, the foundation’s first National Six Week Summer Internship Program for high school and college students, wholly managed by the Distraction-free Life Club.
- The Club leaders received the 2020 Emerging Leaders Award at the Toward Zero Deaths Conference organized by the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.
- The program is in its third year with plans underway for offering it year-long.