Jay Bhatia is a freshman at the University of Pennsylvania. Since he was young, Jay has been fascinated by the way that language can bridge divides across cultures. As such he has devoted much of his time to studying different languages. Arabic, Mandarin, Spanish, and Hindi are some of the languages he is currently studying. Jay studied Arabic in Jordan as part of the State Department's s NSLI-Y program. Also, in past summers he attended the competitive summer language StarTalk program. He will spend his summer studying Hindi as part of the Critical Language Scholarship in Jaipur, India.

Jay started Languages Connect because he knows firsthand the power that languages have to create a shared humanity and understanding. He hopes to spread this power through Languages Connect.