Welcome to Season 2 of Illuminating STEM Stories!  Stay tuned for new episodes featuring incredible college students who are pursuing their dreams in STEM. In today's episode, I chat with Stanford University student Audrey Pe.  Audrey is a freshman at Stanford University and the founder and executive director of WiTech (@witechorg) -- a nonprofit organization based in the Philippines that aims to educate, inspire, and empower youth to break gender barriers and use tech to make a difference in society. Through WiTech, she has been working on projects at the intersection of technology ..read more

In today's episode, I chat with Dr. Apurva Sharma. She is currently a clinical cardiology fellow at the Icahn School of Medicine (Mount Sinai) who was originally born in and immigrated from the country of India. Dr. Sharma previously completed a successful two-year ARVC fellowship in the division of Cardiology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is an ex-resident physician with an M.D. in Internal Medicine from St. Peters University Hospital/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.  Dr. Sharma is undoubtedly a strong and inspiring healthcare professional. She carries special inter ..read more