Maya Shankar

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Maya Shankar
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Senior Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [1]
In office
April 2013 January 19, 2017

Her mother is Uma Shankar, an International Scholar Adviser at Yale University. [18] In a graduation speech Maya gave at The Juilliard School, she explains the role her mother played in her violin journey, and the lesson of "imaginative courage" her mom taught her. [19]

References

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  16. "How Do You Get to Camp? Practice, Of Course; Teenagers Who Play Music, Not Tennis". New York Times . June 27, 2002. Retrieved December 27, 2019.
  17. Shankar, Maya (July 14, 2022). "The joy of being an unwilling traveler through life". Meditative Story. Retrieved December 25, 2023.
  18. "Uma Shankar (she, her, hers)". Yale . Retrieved May 10, 2025.
  19. "What a Musician Turned Cognitive Scientist Wants You to Know About Life". The Washington Post. June 26, 2023. Retrieved May 10, 2025.