Braydon Rutherford: Leaving home to build a home

Hailey (M24) is an RV nomad and ex-Google software engineer interested in alternative education. She aspires to get her PhD in Computational Cognitive Science. When she is not studying, she is teaching people how to find their purpose or online shopping for Japanese office supplies. Pretty much everything she owns is teal.

30 Sep 202225min

Born and raised in Bangkok, Tara (M21) is a brand strategist living in New York City. Now navigating life post-grad, she continues to explore new hobbies (hello skiing, yoga, and cocktail-making), maintaining long-distance friendships, and redefining what it means to live a balanced life for herself. At a party, you'll probably hear her laugh before you see her.

23 Sep 202228min

Professor Alex Terrana’s physical home is in Ontario, Canada, where she was born, raised, and continues to reside. She has happily found her virtual home at Minerva, where she gets to spend her days thinking about how to best help students learn. In addition to working with students, she also loves baking, gymnastics, cosmology, and spending time with her cat, Freddy.

16 Sep 202226min

Yashvardhan is an aspiring economist passionate about social impact from India. He cares about making the world a better place, in the best way possible, through engaging with effective altruism. You should definitely reach out to him for interesting history stories, music recommendations in the indie-folk genre, or understanding why Barça is the best football club to exist :)

9 Sep 202225min

Yueh-Han (also known as 岳涵 \ Johann) (M22) was extremely curious and brave as a child and still strives to live a life with such values. In his pre-Minerva life, he quit high school to experiment with his own "city as a campus" model, taking charge of his own learning path through homeschool. That worked well and eventually lead him to Minerva. Post-graduation, he continues to run life experiments. The latest one has been to intentionally stay in touch and support his family back home. This episode was hosted by Julia Ip and edited by Ang Li-Lian.

2 Sep 202228min

Ha (M23) is a witty scholar from Vietnam with the power to change failure to a greater success and the unequivocal love of friends, family, and last but not least, boba. Studying in Singapore on a merit scholarship, she manifested that conflicts could turn into a strengthened friendship; despite a misfired endeavor to work in a crypto climate startup, she redirected the dejection to be successful in other internship opportunities. Now, she is on the verge of a mental game to believe in herself to unleash her potential and make things happen in her postgraduate journey of life.

26 Aug 202229min

Jonathan Powers lives in Montreal, Canada with his wife, two sons, and two cats. Born and raised in the United States, he has also lived in France and Sweden. Prof. Powers is an unrepentant generalist who reads promiscuously and still doesn't know what he wants to be when he grows up.

19 Aug 202229min

Professor Trisha Stan is a generalist who specializes in learning new things, especially about science! She holds a PhD in Immunology and loves to sing. She is spending the summer enjoying all forms of art and might just have a secret album in the works. This episode was hosted by Leo Wu and edited by Cassandra Cruz.

12 Aug 202228min