I Found My Roadmap For Confronting Tragedy In A Blooming Lotus
Vijay Dixit |
TEDxYouth@MinnetonkaHS
• October 2021
VIJAY DIXIT left his professional career to champion teen driver safety after a distracted driver killed his 19-year-old daughter Shreya on November 1, 2007. A month later Shreya R. Dixit Memorial Foundation (www.shreyadixit.org) was born as a non-profit to
educate and inspire young drivers to adopt distraction-free driving as part of a healthy lifestyle.
Vijay will describe a peer-to-peer influence-based program: Distraction-free Life Club he developed to instill responsible driving behaviors among youth. The Shreya Foundation’s Educate/Incentivize/Act strategy draws in high school students to participate in the program. Vijay is the author of ‘One Split Second’, a highly researched book about the epidemic of distracted driving-how it kills and how we can fix it. In her foreword, US Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota described the book as “A call to action, written with heart.”