Abraham Verghese
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Professor of medicine at Stanford and bestselling author of Cutting for Stone and The Covenant of Water.
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Browse all →The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 heavily favored high-skilled STEM fields, establishing intense cultural pressure on early South Asian generations to stick exclusively to medicine and engineering.
Entering creative, media, and artistic fields represents a profound modern shift away from rigid post-1965 professional expectations.
Why this is on Abraham’s profile — their work continues this lineage.
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