Alumni Edition: Petros & Anurag

08/03/23 • 35 min

Our guests in this episode are Petros Perselis and Anurag Kadasne. Following their upbringings in Greece and United Arab Emirates, respectively, each attended undergrad in the U.S. before meeting at Stanford. The pair discuss the ways Stanford's diverse student body, interactive learning approaches, and culture of questioning, enthusiasm, and entrepreneurship influenced their professional interests and contributed to a new lens on culture and identity. Anurag is Senior Product Manager at Amazon. Petros is Vice President of Customer Success at Cutover. Both graduated from Stanford in 2013.

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Our guests in this episode are Mona Azadkia and Yeganeh Alimohammadi. Mona and Yeganeh met in high school in Tehran and came to the U.S. to study. Their conversation touches on the ways Trump's travel ban impacted their time in the US and the ways becoming an immigrant offered new insights on Iranian culture and opportunities to redefine themselves. Mona is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the London School of Economics. Yeganeh is a PhD candidate in the Operations Research group in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford University. Mona graduated from Stanford in 2020, and Yeganeh in 2022.

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Our guests in this episode are Sheela Chari and Sonja Srinivasan. Both grew up Indian American in parts of the US where few shared their cultural heritage. Together, they discuss their trajectories as writers, their relationship to the Tamil language and cooking, and representations of Indian characters and stories in literature. Sheela is a fiction and middle grade writer and faculty member at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Sonja is a fiction writer, opera singer, and freelance editor and academic. Both graduated from Stanford in 1995.