From Immigrant Roots to Higher Education

In this episode, Sydney Hunt ('23 cohort) and Anson Zhou ('24 cohort) speak with Christian Tanja (Senior Assistant Director of Admission) and Jordyn Sanico (Admission Outreach Coordinator). Jordyn and Christian share their guiding values, experiences with mentorship, and interesting aspects of the work that they do at Knight-Hennessy Scholars. They also share their improbable facts--such as performing in the Carnegie Hall on two different occasions and being able to three prong spearfish!

Highlights from the episode:

(04:04) Home and their journeys to Stanford

(13:40) Singing in the Carnegie Hall twice

(15:07) Mentorship and the people who've supported them along their journeys

(19:46) Handling negative inner voices and imposter syndrome

(22:56) Interesting aspects about their work

(27:17) The inspiration behind their Imagine a World statements

(37:12) Improbable facts and rapid fire questions

(44:20) What they wish scholars knew