Share your journey (opt-in)
A network built on what members actually share.
Alumni & Circles brings people together around shared learning, career interests and professional goals — peer connection, alumni knowledge-sharing, collaborative learning and a showcase for real work. Participation is always a choice, and nothing about you is shared until you choose it.
Find each other by what you've opted in
The alumni directory shows members who chose to appear, with the career area and story they wrote themselves. Nobody is presented as an alumnus, graduate or verified professional without having said so — a listing is a choice, never an implied credential.
Circles with a stated purpose
A circle is a small named group with a goal you can see in the name — practice hours, application sprints, study weeks. You see the name and member count before you join, and you can leave any time. Membership is open; the purpose does the filtering.
Learning that fits around life
Contribution is asynchronous by design: share resources, mark what helped, and run accountability check-ins through your networking planner. The feedback culture targets the work and the evidence, never the person.
Alumni knowledge-sharing
Opted-in members share career journeys, lessons and industry context in their own words. A story reflects one person's experience — it never speaks for an institution or employer — so verify consequential facts with authoritative sources.
Showcase the work itself
An evidence card is one honest headline plus a link to the thing itself — a repo, a portfolio, a deck. Visibility stays inside the signed-in member community: not employers, not the public web.
You manage identity and participation
Your story, circles and cards stay editable and removable, and joining nothing here never limits access to any other DISHA tool. What you write as a member is labelled as self-reported — DISHA doesn't verify claimed roles.
Community safety, privacy and honest limits
Respectful conduct, inclusion and anti-harassment standards apply across every circle and the showcase. Reporting currently runs through the contact routes in the footer — reports reach the DISHA team, who act manually; there is no in-app blocking or automated moderation yet. Privacy-conscious defaults do the protecting: nothing is public to the web, contact details and private messages are never exposed, and you can withdraw from the directory, a circle or the showcase whenever you like.
How this works.
Opt in to what you want to be part of — the alumni directory, a peer circle, the showcase. Nothing is shared until you choose it.
Run the networking planner as your own tracker: name targets, move them from planned to contacted to conversation to closed.
Publish an evidence card in the showcase when the work speaks — a link to the thing itself, not adjectives about it.
Stated plainly — what this doesn't do
- — Everything here is opt-in — no auto-sharing of your profile, story or evidence, and you can leave any part.
- — Alumni stories and showcase cards are member-written; DISHA doesn't verify careers claimed, only that a real member stands behind each entry.
- — There is no private messaging inside DISHA yet — the planner tracks your outreach; the conversations happen wherever you have them.
Questions people ask.
What's a peer circle for?
Accountability. A small named group that meets on a cadence — practice hours, application sprints, study weeks. Start one and see who joins.
Who sees my alumni story?
Other signed-in members, once you opt in. Not employers, not the public web. You can rewrite it any time.
What makes a good showcase card?
One honest headline plus a link to the work itself. The evidence is the pitch — keep the adjectives for your cover letter.
Networks are built in small, specific asks.
Fifteen minutes with the right person outperforms a hundred cold applications. Plan the asks; make them; note what happened.