Meghan Skelton & Premal Dharia

Premal Dharia grew up the child of Indian immigrants in Mingo County, West Virginia, a former coal mining town where her family's food, accents, and visible difference set them apart. A move to the Washington, D.C. suburbs in high school reframed everything: for the first time she saw how interconnected, resourced communities worked, and how disconnected her hometown had been by comparison. In this conversation with Meghan Skelton, she traces the line from that shift, through a jarring colleg...