Dear Little Sisters

Super excited to unveil Season 2 of our podcast! This podcasting journey, over the past year, has been transformative. We've learned so much. In season 2 of our podcast, we hope to continue inspiring+ empowering girls! In season 2 of our podcast, we hope to highlight more female-identifying individuals who have started their own initiatives in order to inspire young girls to start their own. In this time with many stressors, we hope these episodes + conversations give you an outlet to relax and reflect.

Happy Women's History Month!

Listen, relax, reflect, + refocus

Dear Little Sisters! We are very excited to introduce you to Ms. Rohini Kosoglu who serves as Deputy Assistant to the President and Domestic Policy Advisor to the Vice President. She was a Senior Advisor to Vice  President-Elect Kamala Harris on the Biden-Harris Transition Team and previously served as Senior Advisor on the Biden-Harris Campaign. Before  that, she was a Spring 2020 resident fellow at the Institute of  Politics at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard  University. Kosoglu has a dedicated career in public service and was the first South Asian American woman to serve as Chief of Staff in the  United States Senate. She served as Vice-President Elect Harris’ Chief of Staff for her Senate office and later for her presidential campaign. Before that, she was Policy Director for U.S. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado, where she oversaw economic, health care and budget issues. She has negotiated several bipartisan bills into law and served as a senior health care advisor during the drafting and passage of the Affordable Care Act. She also previously served as a legislative aide to U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow of Michigan. Originally from New Jersey, Kosoglu is a graduate of the University of Michigan and George Washington University and is a mother to three young children.

Dear Little Sisters! We are super excited to introduce you to Ms. Alisha Mashruwala Daswani! She is the CEO and Co-Founder of OnCourse, an education company.  Before starting OnCourse, at Harvard, Alisha was the captain of the Harvard squash team. She has always believed in giving back to the community and is now the India fundraising chair and board member of Khelshala, an NGO that focuses on sport and academics.

We’re super excited to introduce you to Dr. Tamara King, who we will be chatting with today. Dr. King got her B.S. in Forensic Chemistry from the University of Mississippi, and a Ph.D in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Florida. She then did a one year long postdoctoral fellowship at the Division of Applied Regulatory Sciences at the FDA, and is now a DMPK scientist at BMS. Learn about the career of a fascinating scientist!

We are very excited to introduce you to Ms. Niba Audrey Nirmal, who we will be chatting with today. Niba Nirmal is a multimedia science communicator based in Ramaytush Ohlone land (San Francisco, CA). She produces and hosts videos about science for places like SciShow, Seeker, and her own channels at Notes By Niba.

She completed her B.S. in Genetics and Genomics at UC Davis, where she also researched the effects of climate change on crops and earned a double-minor in Environmental Toxicology and Diversity Studies. She received her M.S. in Genetics from Duke University, where she researched the genetics, form, and function of plant roots. Learn about a career as a multimedia digital content creator/science communicator! 

You can find her on these platforms: 

Niba @NotesByNiba

Instagram https://www.instagram.com/notesbyniba/

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/c/notesbyniba

Twitter https://twitter.com/NotesByNiba

Website www.notesbyniba.com

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Dear Little Sisters! We are super excited to share Part Two of our chat with  Ms. Joyce Chang. Ms. Chang is a longtime journalist who has formerly been the editor-in-chief of the SELF magazine. She also held positions at other publications including Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, The New York Times Magazine, People, and Allure. Ms. Chang is also currently working on a novel inspired by her family.