When Atita Verghese was 19, she fell in love with skateboarding, even though she didn’t (yet) have her own board. The Goa native was an intrepid adventurer into the male-dominated sport, and would travel every day to her local skatepark to “wait for the guys to get tired and take their boards and try to skate,” she says in a talk at TEDxPESITBSC.