Shabnam Koirala-Azad (Dean at University of San Francisco) on the importance of female and diverse leadership in higher education

In this episode - you'll hear from Shabnam Koirala-Azad, the
first female Dean for the School of Education at the University
of San Francisco. Another fun fact about Shabnam - she is the
FIRST person from Nepal (male or female) to be Dean at ANY
university in the United States!


We discuss her unique upbringing in Kathmandu - being raised by a
Nepalese father and an Iranian mother and how her parents' focus
on helping others stayed with her. We discuss some hardships she
faced early on including her mother passing away when she was
just 10 years old. Her father raised her and her brother to think
of others and to be mindful of life’s significance and purpose in
connecting and helping others. Despite her position of great
responsibility and influence, Shabnam retains the same sense of
humility from her upbringing in Nepal with a deep focus on
elevating education to the masses.





I found Shabnam to be an inspiring teacher in more ways than one.





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Thanks for listening - Yinh