Kumar Garg
Schmidt Futures
Austin, TX USA
"We’re all captives of our own experience. You can’t imagine things you can’t see."
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Kumar's work combines: Non-Profit Organizations, Government, and Helping People
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Day In The Life
Skills &
Education
Advice for getting started
Government, policy, and other impact jobs are all relationship-based careers. Even if it feels a little scary, you've got to reach out to try and make those connections. People are often more friendly on the other end than you may think. Try reaching out to someone on LinkedIn or email to ask for five minutes of their time to learn more about what they're doing.
Here's the path I took:
High School
Bachelor's Degree
Political Science and Computer Science
Dartmouth University
Doctorate
Law
Yale Law School
Life & Career Milestones
I've taken a lot of twists and turns
1.
I was born in India and moved to the U.S. right before middle school.
2.
I earned my bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth University where I studied political science and computer science.
3.
After college, I started building my career working on political campaigns.
4.
I joined the Obama Administration and focused on math and science education.
5.
I now work as the vice president of partnerships for Schmidt Futures, a foundation that works to ensure advances in science and technology get applied to important things in the world.
Defining Moments
How I responded to discouragement
THE NOISE
Messages from Society in general:
Change is really hard.
How I responded:
A lot of people hold onto this sentiment that change is really hard. However, I had a mentor that impressed upon me that there is a lot more in the world that is fixable, changeable, and shapeable than people realize. Everything that exists around you, somebody came up with. So all of that is changeable. It's just a matter of effort.