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“My father was the first literate person in the family, and when I went to college in Delhi, that was still uncommon in our family at that time. My…

“I was born and raised in Russia and was lucky to be born during a short democratic period. From an early age, I heard how important democratic…

“After receiving my graduate degree from King's College London, I traveled through the Middle East, from Istanbul through Turkey, Syria, Jordan, the…

“My fascination with diplomacy stems from growing up at a time when many global events were taking place all around me. Perhaps that led to my desire…

“Having a mother who completed college online while I was in middle school greatly impacted how I view the immense value of education and the on…

"As a child, I loved trains and found it frustrating that MARTA — the mass transit system in Atlanta — didn't come to my house. As I got older and…

“I spent the initial nine years of my career working in some of the most remote tribal-dominated areas in the state of Odisha in India. My work was…

“I lived in the South most of my life, often in suburban and predominantly white communities, and I was very aware of the space that I was in. I was…

I grew up in the Deir Ezzor province in Northeastern Syria, near the Iraqi border. We didn’t expect the Syrian civil war in 2011. I remember the…

I took a gap year after high school and had the chance to play semi-pro volleyball in the Netherlands for a few months. Volleyball is a big part of…