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Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Sahaj Kaur Kohli

Apr 28, 2026

5:36
And you have an interesting background being raised by immigrant parents-Can you set the stage for us with that as well?
5:43
Definitely, yeah.
5:44
So I'm the first in my family to be born in the West.
5:46
I have two older siblings and my parents, who were all born in India, but my mom was actually raised in Japan.
5:52
So, you know, I come from a very multicultural family in that everyone is, by identity and culture and heritage, Indian, but we have a lot of East Asian cultural kind of roots.
6:05
And people look at me and they think I'm Indian, right? But they don't know that I have this other part of my identity that I relate to, and it's a big part of my work, of not making assumptions about where people are from and how they relate to their identities.
6:18
But basically, my mom grew up in Japan.

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16:16
When you say, you know, like, raised within a dominant narrative, what are you referring to related to mental health?

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