Anjali Venkatesh Rajagopal, an MBA student in the Wharton School, died on January 23 due to a brain hemorrhage. She was 40.

Ms. Rajagopal was born in Chennai, India. She earned her bachelor’s degree in international relations and affairs from the University of San Diego. In 2013, she founded and launched Touché PR, a marketing company based in Chennai whose mission was to empower women to discover their unique identities. This visionary project was driven by Ms. Rajagopal’s own experience after a traumatic car collision at the age of 19, which necessitated months of rehabilitation.

Ms. Rajagopal then furthered her education by obtaining a master’s degree in public relations and corporate communications from New York University before joining the Wharton School to pursue her MBA. She had an impressive track record at Penn, receiving the Silverstein MBA Fellowship Fund, participating in the Forté Foundation (representing the MBA Women’s Leadership Conference in 2021), and participating in various Wharton clubs, including Wharton Women in Business, retail, general management, technology, marketing, consulting, and media & entertainment.

She is survived by her family members, Rama and Venky Rajagopal and Chandhana and Vidyuth Rajagopal.