All that matters is what God thinks of me. My journey toward justice will change the world.
Hi, my name is Manisha Kaura (she/her). I'm a 34-year old published author writing a low choline diet cookbook for patients with Trimethylaminuria and Dimethylglycinuria, creating a cool new patient support app for all malodorous rare disease patients, and exercising to get my body back at Orangetheory Fitness. As well, after all trials are over, I look forward to return to school and to take my formal, lifelong Brahmacharini vows in Italy, surrounded by my spiritual advisors, my friends, my family, and the press. I've been a sworn Hindu Brahmacharini ('nun' equivalent) since February 2025, something I thought about for over a decade while being an Ordained Minister with Universal Life Church from February 2016. Though I've chosen a JD/MPA path and a career in the philanthropic sector over an MDiv from divinity school and a pastoral career as a Hindu and Unitarian Universalist, I'm studying foreign languages, comparative scripture, top New Age works, and science now before my formal education resumes. Previously, I founded the healthcare nonprofit Dermetel (formerly Dangerous Rays) at age 19 and led it for a decade as Executive Director. During that time, I authored two children's books on skin cancer prevention, directed a documentary on indoor tanning, founded a free dermatology clinic for underserved patients, supported rare disease communities, and helped patients access genetic testing. At age 23 in 2016, I delivered a private TEDx talk on the future of teledermatology, and also won three Utah beauty pageant state titles. And from 2017 to 2021, I also built a career in high-end fashion design and manufacturing under the brand Misha Kaura, producing collections shown during New York Fashion Week, managing teams of seamstresses across multiple cities, dressing a celebrity in a couture gown photographed by Getty Images, and hosting a globally distributed fashion podcast. More recently, between 2022 to 2025, I founded two biotech ventures--one for profit and one non-profit--that I closed in 2024 and 2025, respectively. In my free time, I enjoy reading nonfiction, going to the theatre, seeing Broadway musicals, eating at restaurants, listening to music, watching animated movies and documentaries, listening to motivational speeches by Joel Osteen, Zig Ziglar, Tony Robbins, and Dale Carnegie, engaging with my Shakti Hindu spirituality, etc. Above all, I'm so grateful to both the FBI BAU and Mata Rani for protecting me till date; I can't wait to get justice and to feel safe again.