Living The American Dream Through Tech Marketing 

As part of Women’s History Month, OpenSesame is celebrating our women colleagues and putting the spotlight on their stories. Hear from Shubhi Tangri, Marketing Specialist, about her experience as the daughter of Indian immigrants and breaking barriers to pursue the American dream.

I sit comfortably in my room on my MacBook Pro, proceeding to write what it means to me to be a woman of color in Marketing for a West-Coast based Tech company. As I reflect on the opportunities given to me, I can only think of my parents. They sacrificed an insurmountable amount for me to live this American dream. 

My dad spent 16 hours a day studying, without the help of Apple laptops and reliable electricity. This was all so he could earn acceptance into the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee to become an electrical engineer—an institution known to have a more fiercely competitive acceptance rate than that of MIT. It was one choice in a narrow pool of options (e.g. medicine) in India that allowed anyone to dream of settling in America.

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