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Oral History Interview with Santosh Wahi
Santosh Wahi was born in Northern India and was the daughter of an Indian diplomat. Because of her father’s postings, she lived in Delhi, Holland, and New York City by the time she graduated college. Mrs.

Oral History Interview with Shalia Kode
Dr. Shalia Kode grew up in Belgaum, which is in Karnataka state in India. Her family moved to Mumbai in 1966 where she started at Grant Medical College. She lived with her family in Goregaon until she fulfilled her father’s dream of her becoming a doctor. After that, she spent two years as a physician in a rural primary health center in Ratanagari. Dr.

Oral History Interview with Vijay Vashee
Mr. Vashee was born in 1950 in Zimbabwe, in a town called Bulawayo. Mr. Vashee’s family is originally from Gujarat, India but had been living in Africa since his grandfather migrated there and he grew up as part of a large community of Gujarati merchants and settlers.

Oral History Interview with Zakir Parpia
Born in India in 1948, Zakir Parpia grew up and went to school in the areas surrounding Bombay. After completing his bachelor's degree in engineering and working in the construction industry in India, Mr. Parpia came to Pullman, Washington to pursue his Master's degree in Civil Engineering from Washington State University where he graduted magna cum laude.

Oral History Interview with Akhtar Badshah
A doctoral graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Badshah is the Director of Community Affairs for Microsoft. Before joining Microsoft, Badshah was the CEO and president of Digital Partners Foundation, a Seattle-area nonprofit organization whose mission is to utilize the digital economy to benefit the poor.

Oral History Interview with Bharti Kirchner
Bharti Kirchner is the author of eight books -- four novels and four cookbooks, and has been publishing since 1992. Bharti has won two Seattle Arts Commission literature grants, and an Artist Trust GAP grant.

Oral History Interview with Lakshmi Gaur
Dr. Lakshmi Gaur was born in Jeypore, Orissa. Her family moved to Hyderabad in the mid- 1960’s and she completed much of her early schooling there. She lived with her father and sister, as well as other relatives, including her beloved grandmother who acted as a mother to her and her sister. After finishing her high school education, Dr.

Oral History Interview with Mohammad Zahid Hossain
While during her PhD, Dr. Gaur won the opportunity to come to the United States on a Fulbright fellowship to continue her studies in Charleston, South Carolina and eventually in Seattle, Washington. Throughout her career, she has been on research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany and has published numerous papers in noted scientific journals.

Oral History Interview with Nirmala Gnanapragasam
Nirmala (Nimmy) Gnanapragasam obtained her Bachelors Degree with First Class Honors from University of Moratuwa, Srilanka in 1985. She earned her MS (1988) and PhD (1993) from Northwestern University. Dr. Gnanapragasam joined Seattle University as an Assistant Professor in 1993, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1998.

Oral History Interview with Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapalwas born in Chennai, India and grew up between Indonesia, Singapore, and India. Ms. Jayapal has a Masters in Business Administration from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, and a B.A. from Georgetown University in English and Economics.

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