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Dr. Cynthia Lee of Stanford University On STEM Education

Dr. Cynthia Lee teaches in the Computer Science Dept at Stanford. She shares her love for math, computer science and about women in STEM. Ironically, when Dr. Lee was in middle school she lost interest in math and thought she was not good at it. She shares how she re-discovered her love for math and why she went on to do a PhD in Computer Science. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c... Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Ka... Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Filmmaker Noel Dockstader

...on The Point of No Return

The Kamla Show: Jonathan Kauffman

...on Hippie Food

Dr. Kristina Yu

Director, Living Systems, Exploratorium, San Francisco

Filmmaker Pete Nicks on "The Force"

Pete Nicks talks about his documentary film THE FORCE (2017). It took 2 years for Nicks to make THE FORCE that takes you behind the scenes of the Oakland Police Department that has been under federal monitoring for over 10 years. This is the second film in a trilogy that Nicks is making on Oakland, a San Francisco Bay area city. Nicks won a directing award for THE FORCE at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla You can subscribe to our podcast and YouTube channel, where every week we feature new interviews. And here is a list of TV stations in the US that broadcast our show.

Corbett Redford on Turn It Around: The History of East Bay Punk Rock, Green Day & Kindness

Filmmaker Corbett Redford about his debut documentary Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (2017). This is a dense and rich history of punk rock from San Francisco's East Bay region and how music was a lifeline for many young people. Redford shares the friendly guidelines that he got from Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong at the launch of the film project. These guidelines were don’t get lost in the acrimony, don’t mystify nostalgia and include diverse voices. Redford also shares how Berkeley (the city) values informed many of the punk musicians. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla You can subscribe to our podcast and YouTube channel, where every week we feature new interviews. And here is a list of TV stations in the US that broadcast our show.

Women in Tech Series: Shireen Santosham, Chief Innovation Officer, City of San Jose

Shireen Santosham is the Chief Innovation Officer for the city of San Jose. We talk to her about how San Jose plans to build a smart, sustaintable and innovative city in Silicon Valley? What plans do they have for their Smart City iniatiative and how would it benefit the denizens of the city. We also talk to her about how her parents influenced her and the mentors who helped shape her world view. Systemic change and tackling big problems is something that Santosham enjoys tackling. Santosham spent part of her early years in a Indian reservation in Arizona, where both her parents served as physicians.She studied at University of Penn and at Harvard. This interview is part of our TV series in Women in Science and Tech sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Amy Guittard of Guittard Chocolate Company

It is one of the best kept secrets of San San Francisco. That company is Guittard Chocolate Company and we sat down to speak with Amy Guittard, a fifth generation member of the family and the first woman to work in the chocolate company. She wears many hats and one of them is director of marking and she also works quite a bit with the sustainability aspect of the company. Tune in to find out what it takes to run one of the oldest family run chocolate companies in the US that was founded about 150 years ago in San Francisco. This interview was aired on TV in the US and is part of our Women in Science, Tech and Business series sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Robert Byrne on Silent Films & San Francisco Silent Film Festival

We sat down to speak with Robert Byrne on the legacy of silent films, what it takes to restore silent films and the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Byrne got hooked to silent films when he saw Charlie Chaplin's City Lights. Bryne is the Board President of San Francisco Silent Film Festival and is a film restorer. He has worked on restoring silent films including the 1916 Sherlock Holmes film starring Willaim Gillette. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Stanford's Dr. Rajni Agarwal-Hashmi on Stem Cell Transplant & Whe She Became A Doctor

Kamla talks with Dr.Dr. Rajni Agarwal-Hashmi, Associate Prof & Medical Director, Pediatric Cell Transplant Program, Stanford Children’s Health. Dr. Agarwal-Hashmi shares about the pioneering work in stem cell at Stanford’s Children Health. She shares how they take their research from bench to bedside. Dr. Agarwal-Hashmi also shares how she chose to pursue her career in medicine and her mother’s advice to pursue a career in pediatrics. Dr. Agarwal-Hashmi’s interest in stem cell came in an unexpected manner and once she heard about the potential is stem cell transplant she pursued it in a determined fashion. Money was not the objective, it was a rare chance to work in the field that influenced her decision. This interview is part of our TV series in Women in Science and Tech sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Women in Tech Series: Suzanne Frey of Google

Kamla talks to Suzanne Frey, Director, Trust, Security, Privacy, Google Apps at Google.How did Frey go from getting a liberal arts degree to working in the tech industry? Frey is a board member of Motley Fool, This is part of Women in Science & Tech Series sponsored by Zoho. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Nicole Lazzaro on Wonder, Virtual Reality & Designing Games

Nicole Lazzaro is CEO of XEO Design. We talk to her about Virtual Reality (VR), wonder and designing games. Lazzaro has been designing games for over 20 years. We asked what advice would she give someone that is interested in designing games. Two things was her answer - learn to code and read lots of science fiction books. This is a higlight of our upcoming interview with Lazzaro from our Women in Science and Tech series sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Shalini Govil-Pai on Computer Science, Pixar & YouTube

Shalini Govil-Pai is Senior Director, Technology Solutions, Youtube/Google. We talk to her about how she discovered her love for comptuer graphics as a teenager in her father's lab. She went on to get her undergraduate and graduate degrees in computer engineering. Her dream was to work at Pixar and she diligently pursued it. She worked at Pixar for a few years. She then joinedj Google in 2005. This interview is part of our Women in Science & Tech series sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

John Turner on Korla Pandit

John Turner talks about Korla Pandit, a talented musician and the Godfather of Exotica music. Pandit was the first musician to perform live on American TV in the late 1940s. Turner is the director of new documentary "Korla" that takes us through a fascinating journey of Pandiit's life, who spend most of his life in California. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Alam Khan on UStad Ali AKbar Khan, Hindustani Music, Maihar Gharana & Grand Tapestry

Alam Khan is a musician, composer and teacher based in San Francisco Bay area. He learn to play the sarode from his father Ustad Ali Akbar Khan, who founded his music school in SF Bay area in 1967. We talk to Alam Khan about his father, the contribution of Maihar gharana, and his interest in hip-hop music and the new album GRAND TAPESTRY that has Elijh on vocals, Saler Nader on tabla and Alam Khan on sarode. This interview was aired on TV in the US. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Halfdan Hussey on Cinequest Film & VR Festival 2017

We sat down to speak with Halfdan Hussey, CEO and co-founder of Cinequest, a Silicon Valley-based organization about their annual film festival. The 2017 Cinequest Film & VR Festival takes places from Feb 28 through March 12, 2017 in San Jose and Redwood City. This year they have a strong focuse on Virtual Reality (VR) related events spanning from films to panel discussion and immersive VR experiences. The opening night film on Feb 28, 2017 is director Mark Pellington's "The Last Word " starring Shirley MacLaine & Amanda Seyfried. The closing night film is director Niki Caro's "The Zookeeper's Wife," starrign Jessica Chastain, Johan Heldenbergh & others. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Danielle Applestone, CEO, Other Machine Co.

Meet Danielle Applestone, CEO of Other Machine Co. This Berkeley-based company makes desktop milling machines that helps engineers create their prototypes the same day. Now, that is just one use case of how Other Machine's desktop milling machine is used. Applestone explains how engineers, students and artists are using the desktop milling machine. We sat down to speak with Applestone about her journey from rural Arkansas to MIT, University of Texas at Austin to Silicon Valley. What prompted her to pursue an engineering degree? How did her parents help her? What was their role? And, why she wants to meet Elon Musk. Tune in to find out. This interview in Women in Science and Tech is sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Michael Price on Seismic Warning, Pixar & Engineering

Michael Price is CTO of Seismic Warning Systems, a Silicon Valley-based company. Price shares how their system is designed to provide reliable earthquake warning using sensors. But, how is their system different from others that are available in the market? Tune in to find out. Early on in his career Price worked for Pixar as their VP of Engineering. This was a time when Steve Jobs was actively involved with Pixar. We talked to him about the early days of Pixar and what it was like to work with Jobs. Price studied engineering at Carnegie Mellon and has worked in Silicon Valley for over 30 years. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Women in Tech Series: Devika Chawla on Engineering & Music

Kamla sits down to talk with Devika Chawla, Engineering Director at Netflix about how she balances her interest in computer engineering and music. Chawla developed and nurtured her interests in software programming and music from a young age. She studied computer engineering at George Town University in Washington DC and moved to Silicon Valley, where she worked at Inktomi, Yahoo and now works at Netflix. Chawla has released a handful of music records and worked with various musicians in the San Francisco Bay area and from India. This TV interview aired in the US and is sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Dhruv Khanna of Kirigin Cellars

Dhruv Khanna is the owner of Kirgin Cellars in Gilroy. This Santa Clara winery is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. Founded in 1916 the winery was owned by 2 different families before Khanna bought it about 15 years ago.This is perhaps the only winery that has a cricket field and a couple of soccer fields. We sit down to talk to Khanna about how he came to buy the winery and his involvement as a wine maker. This is part of our TV series on Santa Clara Wineries, which is the oldest wine growing region in California. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Amy Love on Sports, Entrepreneurship & Marketing

Amy Love fought for young girls to play soccer in America. In 1974 as a 9 year old girl Love found out she could not play soccer. Why? Because she was a girl. Love's question to her parents was - what does it matter that she is a girl? She just wanted to play soccer. We sat down with Love to find out how she and her parents fought back through a class action suit to help her play soccer. 40 years after the legal case it is still not easy for girls to play soccer Love points out. Love went on to found an all woman's sports magazine called Real Sports and she explains how and why she started it. The magazine now exsists online. #amylove Love is currently the chief marketing officer at Violing Memory, a publicly traded company from Silicon Valley. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Rasika Kumar On Technology and Dance

Meet Rasika Kumar who has found a way to combine her interests in technology and arts. She is an engineer at Google, and as associate director at Abhinaya Dance Company that her mother Mythili Kumar founded 35 years ago in Silicon Valley. How did Kumar develop her interest in math and science and go on to a degree in engineering from MIT? What did she learn from her father, who is a hardware engineer and her mother, who is a dancer and an educator? Tune in to find out. This interview is part of our "Women in Science and Tech" TV series sponsored by Zoho Corp. It aired on TV in the USA. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Vinod Dham on Coming to America & Technology

Vinod Dham is an engineer, investor and an entrepreneur. He is perhaps best known as "The Father of the Pentium Chip," and we were curious to find out how he got that moniker. We spoke with Dham about how why and how he decided to come to America to study. After graduating from Delhi School of Engineering Dham went to work for a hardware company in Delhi. After a couple of years he decided to come to America for his graduate studies. He had to buy a map from Connaught Place to figure out where in America his school was located. Tune in to find out about Dham's journey to America, and how he came to work in Silicon Valley and went on to became an investor and an entrepreneur.

Netflix's Ken Florance on OpenConnect, Buddhism & Tech

Ken Florance is Vice President of Netflix,. We sat down to speak to him about OpenConnect, Netflix in a box and binge watching. And then we changed gears to find out how he got interested in technology and his love for music esp The Grateful Dead. We also spoke about how he became a Buddhist. It was an interview of the Dalai Lama by John McLaughlin that drew his attention to Buddhism. This is a TV interview broadcast in the USA. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Women in Tech & Science: Uma Jayaram on Technology & Virtual Reality

Dr. Uma Jayaram is co-founder & COO of VOKE VR that was acquired by Intel Corp in November 2016. Dr. Jayaram and her husband founded VOKE VR, a virtual reality company that is now based in Silicon Valley. In this interview we speak to Dr. Jayaram about VOKE VR and virtual reality and how she developed an interest in math and science. Dr. Jayaram credits her mother for shaping her interest in math and sciene. Dr. Jayaram's mother did her graduate studies in engineering in Seattle in the 1950s and went back to India. Many years later Dr. Jayaram came to Washinngton state where she taught at Washington State University in Pullman. This interview is part of Women in Science & Tech series sponsored by Zoho. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Anja Manuel on China, India and the USA

Anja Manuel is co-founder & partner at RiceGateHadley LLC, a strategic consulting firm in Silicon Valley. We sat down to speak about her new book "This Brave New World: India, China and the United States of America.” Manuel points out India and China are rising nations in the 21stc and it is important for the US to work with both these Asian countries. She underscores that India, China and the US stand to gain a lot through partnership and collaboration and explains why and how that can be done. She examines the challenges and wrinkles that exist in the relationship between and among these countries. Manuel worked in the state department from 2005 to 2007. She served as Special Assistant to Under-Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns. She was part of the US negotiating team for the US-India civilian nuclear deal. Manuel is a lawyer and studied at Stanford and Harvard. This interview was broadcast on TV in the US. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

In Conversation With Punit Soni, Investor & Advisor

Punit Soni is an ex-Googler and former Chief Product Officer of Flipkart, an ecommerce company & one of the few Unicorns from India. Soni is based in Silicon Valley, where he is an investor and an advisor to startups. Disrupt is a favorite word of Soni. We sat down to speak with him about how he disrupted his life. Why did he study engineering? Why did he want to do an MBA? He applied to MBA schools 3 years in a row before he got into Wharton. How did Google change his life? What is next for him? Tune in to find out. This interview was sponsored by Zoho Corp. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Rachel Rosen on 59th San Francisco International Film Festival

Rachel Rosen is Director of Programming at San Francisco Film Society. We spoke to her about the 59th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 21-May 5, 2016). The festival features about 175 films from around the world. Tom McCarthy, Mira Nair, Coen Brothers and Stephen Fry are some of the guests attending this year's festival. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

Shampa Banerjee, Chief Product Officer, Eros Now

Shampa Banerjee is the Chief Product Officer of Eros Now, digital division of Eros International the largest integrated studio for Bollywood films. It was serendipity that brought Banerjee from the ivory tower to the vibrant and challenging startup landscape in Silcon Valley. While pursing her post-doctorate in Physics a chance conversation changed her career path and she ended up coding and leading engineering teams and defining product strategies for companies. How did a physicist become a Chief Product Officer? Tune in to find out. Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla

La Malaguena by Cascada de Flores

La Malaguena is a famous Son Huasteco from Mexico. Here is Cascade de Flores's version of this famous son about a young man sharing his love for a woman from Malaga in Spain. Arwen Lawrence is on vocals, Jorge Liceaga is on guita, Saul Sierra-Alonso is on bass and Kyla Danysh on violin. San Francisco Bay area based Cascada de Flores was founded in 1999 by Arwen Lawrence and Jorge Lineage with a focus to highlight Mexican and Latin American music. They have released 4 CDs, and their last one was called "Radio Flor." Subscribe to YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=kamlabhatt Visit our website and subscribe to our podcasts: http://kamlashow.com/ Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Kamla-Show/190623997636125 Get the latest updates via Twitter http://www.twitter.com/kamla