Dean Lateef is a student at Colgan High School in Prince William County, Virginia, and a reporter for Potomac Local News. He covers stories through a youth lens, including the outlet’s America 250 series, and has a strong interest in local history, which leads him to highlight Northern Virginia’s historic sites.
I recently spoke with Navya Tuteja, a 17-year-old rising senior at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, about the free AI tool she built and launched called Raaha. The platform is designed to help neurodivergent job seekers figure out whether a role will actually fit how they work—before they hit “apply.”
Navya created Raaha after seeing the same problem play out again and again. Job descriptions, she told me, usually explain what employers want but almost never describe what the job will feel like day to day. For neurodivergent people, that gap often leads to applications that go nowhere or jobs that quickly become unsustainable.
