Ayana Ganjoo and Madilyn Shoop-Gardner
March 25, 2025
Everyday life for 8-year-old Dhyana Levey seemed no different from that of her peers.
She went to school on the weekdays, played with other kids her age in downtown Santa Barbara, and read books with her parents at the kitchen table on the weekend. To her, this was normal. It was the only life she had ever known.
But as she grew older, fractures in her story emerged.
When her schoolmates talked of going out to the movies, Levey failed to relate to their recounts, as seeing movies were banned in her household. The kids she played with were never outside a controlled group of proximity neighbors. The books she read with her parents were irregular – they preached strange ideas about Eastern religion that contradicted what she learned in school.
The breaking point arrived in her teenage years. At 13, Levey’s world was shaken when her local newspaper published a shocking exposé — a series of articles unraveling a web of embezzlement and infidelity.
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