Jayshree Vencatesan

Interview Summary (0:00) Early Life and Education Jayshree Vencatesan spent much of her childhood in Andhra Pradesh in the cities of Guntur and Rajahmundry. Her father worked for Hindustan Lever. Her mother, before getting married to Vencatesan’s father, was a teacher and after that, a home-maker. She has two younger brothers. She describes her household as “typical” and “middle-class.” Vencatesan moved around schools a lot because of the kind of transferable job her father had. She went to a Catholic...