Chhaya Kulkarni, Ph.D. ’25: Doing “the Thing That Scares You” Leads Information Systems Graduate Across The Stage - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Chhaya Kulkarni, Ph.D. ’25: Doing “the Thing That Scares You” Leads Information Systems Graduate Across The Stage - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Toward the end of 2018, Chhaya Kulkarni, Ph.D. ’25, information sciences, was working as an IT analyst in India and contemplating pursuing higher education. Her mom, who had earned her own master’s degree in the ’80s, praised the mind-expanding potential of graduate work, and her cousin, who had already forged a path to UMBC, showcased the value of a Retriever education. In 2019, Kulkarni arrived on campus and began a fulfilling journey that wil…