Maanya Pandey is a junior majoring in public health at the University of Iowa. She’s also the founder and president of Love For Red, a nonprofit she began when she was 15 to help address period poverty in Iowa. Her organization has provided over 150,000 menstrual products across the state of Iowa since 2020.

Read more about Maanya and her work, including advocating for making free period products available in Iowa schools.

Media Coverage

Love For Red fights period poverty in Iowa (Business Record)

Free period products in schools gains traction in the Iowa House (Gazette)

House advances bill to provide free period products in middle and high school (Iowa Public Radio)