In this special alumni edition of Origin Stories, we invited Stanford alumni to interview each other about how immigration has shaped their lives. Our guests in this episode are Nitya Rajeshuni and Irteza Anwara Mohyuddin. Nitya grew up in the American South, while Irteza was born in Bangladesh and came to the US when her parents immigrated. Together, they dive into the complexities of South Asian identities, shared values across faiths, and how immigration has shaped their work over the years.
Nitya is a Leerink Innovation Fellow at Harvard HealthTech and a physician and epidemiologist. Irteza is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. Both graduated from Stanford in 2013.