At The End of The Day with Anuz Thapa & Dipika Shrestha

In this episode, we talk to Victoria Chubirka from Ukraine.

In the June of 2019, Victoria graduated with the Master’s of Public Administration degree from Baruch College in New York City. In this conversation, she shares with us, what motivated her to go for a second masters degree when she already had one from Ukraine, and walks us through her ‘interesting, hectic and busy’ ‘student life experience’ where she was juggling her time between her job, full time study, internship, and graduate students’ activities. 

Victoria can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Wendy Garcia, the Chief Diversity Officer at the New York City Comptroller’s office.

Wendy is a first-generation American from Dominican Republic. In this conversation, she takes us through her journey of growing up as an immigrant’s child, and her professional growth in the USA. And then she shares, ‘what it means to be serving New York City today, in the role of the Chief Diversity Officer’.

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In this episode, we talk to Annetta Seecharran from Guyana. 

Annetta is the Executive Director at Chhaya CDC (Community Development Corporation). In this conversation, she walks us through her professional journey in the United States; she emphasizes the significance of ‘being able to build authentic relationships’ in one’s career advancement.  

One interesting thing she says is, “When you are authentic in your interest and in your passion, it attracts other authentic people.”

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In this episode, we talk to Anita Silwal from Nepal. 

Anita is Senior Planner at City of Winter Haven in Florida. In this conversation, she walks us through her journey of her academic and professional growth in the United States - from the initial days of undergoing stress and anxiety as a new person in a foreign land, to exploring opportunities that surrounded her, and to navigating her way to where she is today.  

Anita can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Nara Roberta Silva from Brazil. Nara is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Lehman College, City University of New York.

In this conversation, she shares personal anecdotes of how asking for help, helped in her academic career in the U.S. 

One interesting thing she says is, 'don't just ask for help; it should be a productive asking.' To know more what she means by this, watch/listen to the conversation. 

Nara can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, Píter Ortega Núñez walks us through his journey of being an Art Historian and TV Host in Cuba, to being a Journalist in New York City, U.S. 

From his struggles in the initial years in Florida to joining  a journalism school - Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism - in New York City, his personal story is truly inspiring and one that any new immigrant can relate to. 

 The biggest lesson he says he learnt in this journey is, ‘one needs to be humble’  as nobody owes anything from you.

Píter can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, Archana Pokhrel from Nepal talks to us about her professional growth in the U.S., from her profession in cable television and telecommunications to starting her own venture project as an entrepreneur.  

Archana used to work for an American cable television company Time Warner and then she worked at the telecommunications company Verizon. She has now transitioned her career to entrepreneurship. She is the CEO of Lenox Spa and Nails in New York City. 

She can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, Justine D’Souza, Social Media and Community Management Associate at World Education Services (WES) about the process of evaluating one’s academic credentials in the U.S. 

If you are new in the U.S. and are planning to study in a university here, this episode will be really helpful to you. 

Here, Justine explains- depending upon which country you are from and what your past academic degree is - the documents required for your academic evaluation might differ.  Watch/Listen to this conversation for detailed information. 

For more Info on this, you can log into their website: www.wes.org.

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In this episode, we talk to Tsamchoe Dolma from India. 

Tsamchoe works as a Research Associate with a non-profit organization, Math for America.   

In this conversation, she takes us through her journey, from being an 'international student' in the U.S. to her current career as a Researcher.   She also mentions her physical disability and the challenges it posed during her job search.  

As per Tsamchoe’s humble request, we did not film this episode.  

Tsamchoe can be contacted at [email protected].

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In this episode, we talk to Community Justice Organizer Kazi Fouzia from Bangladesh.

In this conversation, she takes us through her journey, from being an ‘undocumented’ to undergoing an accident to filing a law-suit for her rights as an employee, and then to getting back to her career in community leadership and activism in New York City.

One interesting thing she says is, one of the problems facing the immigrants is, a class-struggle amongst themselves – a discrimination amongst each other on how successful I was back home versus now having to do a low paying job with someone of much lower skill level. 

She shares that, unless people develop the understanding that no matter how high or low you were in your job hierarchy back home, it is important to work hand -in-hand with people from all walks of life as we try to build a new community in the new country.

Kazi can be contacted at [email protected].

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