Wazhma Sadat was born in Kabul, Afghanistan in a setting where her educational opportunities were severely limited by the Taliban’s ban on girls’ education. When the Taliban’s stringent policies...
ENRIQUE SCHAERERÂ is Deputy District Attorney at Washoe County District Attorney's Office in Reno, Nevada. Previously, he was a Litigation Associate at Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP in downtown Los...
Ponneh is a Senior Associate at Isaacson, Miller in DC. Ponneh was born in Iran. Her family fled the Iranian revolution when Ponneh was two and settled in the US. Ponneh graduated from University...
Krzysztof aspires to be a physician-scientist in the biotech field. He wants to combine basic science, clinical, and commercial insights to facilitate the development of novel therapeutics for...
When Roxana's parents immigrated to the United States from Tehran in the late 1970s, the Iranian Revolution was gaining momentum. Influenced by her father's love of science, Roxana went to the Texas...
ANKUR LUTHRA has spent his career as an investor in technology companies, currently serving as Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Finchwood Capital, a hedge fund in SF. Prior to Finchwood, he...
Boróka Bó was born into the persecuted Hungarian minority in Communist Romania and emigrated with her family to the U.S. as political refugees when she was 14. Two years later her life was again...
ELIZABETH JOY ROE is a concert pianist, educator, and arts advocate. She was born in Illinois to parents of Korean descent. Hailed “brilliant" (The New York Times) and "an artist to be taken...
ELINATHAN OHIOMOBA was born in Houston to Nigerian immigrants. Beginning her writing career as a child, Elinathan was soon producing a novel and a series of short stories that describe the Biafran...
Jeannie Suk Gersen was born in Seoul, South Korea, and immigrated to Queens, New York, with her family when she was six years old. Jeannie received a BA from Yale and a DPhil from Oxford, where she...