Exploring Career Plans with Writer and Aerospace Engineer Amrita

In this podcast you learn-

1. Reconciling multiple interest to follow your curiosity

2. Transitions from an Aerospace Engineer to a Fiction Author

3. Importance of discipline and consistency in writing

Amrita studied aerospace engineering at IIT Bombay and Stanford University. After spending over a decade in strategy, operations, and marketing roles at Google, BCG, Pocket Gems, and Good Earth, she now leads Wadhwani AI’s projects in the Maternal and Child Health space. Milk Teeth, her first novel which was is on many prominent literary lists, was published by Westland Context in November 2018. Amrita was part of the Sangam House writing residency in 2017-18 and her writing has appeared in Hindustan Times, Indian Express, Scroll, Himal Southasian and Brown Paper Bag.