Binisha Shrestha

Binisha Shrestha is a small business owner of The Saal Leaf, an online food and gift delivery company. With a background in film and communications, she’s always been a storyteller driven by a need to understand and influence the audience. She is a relentless problem solver with unquenchable curiosity who can’t help but analyze and try to improve everything she sees.She believes that technology can revolutionize how people learn, communicate and create and she’s passionate about shaping products and services that help people focus on what they do best: be human. After living in USA for almost a decade she returned to Nepal in 2020. She was born and raised in Lalitpur, Nepal. Binisha was a research assistant and translator on the Art Heals project.

“Wellness and mental health are issues that affect each of us. I loved talking to so many artists during this project. They told me about how their art saved lives, which moved me. To be able to express emotions as an artist can be an epic release. To be a viewer moved by what we see or hear can make a change in us, even if for a moment you simply feel not so alone. Or because what you feel is there on the wall or that you walk for a moment in someone else’s shoes and find some empathy for others. [We should] never suffer alone. Trauma affects us of all and reverberates out to everyone in our lives. This project is moving, beautiful, tough, and needed. [It is] a place where art meets activism. I am happy to share that I was part of this project.”

                                                                                                  -Binisha Shrestha