People’s Places: From Beijing to Washington D.C. with Carys Shepard ’27

Introducing “People’s Places,” the podcast that answers that classic orientation icebreaker question: Where are you from? In the first episode, Carys Shepard ’27 talks culture shock from a life moving between continents.

People’s Places: From Beijing to Washington D.C. with Carys Shepard ’27

Carys Shepard ’27 has lived in Atlanta, Addis Abada, Queens, Beijing, and Washington D.C. On the first episode of People’s Places, Carys joins host Rizwan Ayub ’27 to discuss her experience growing up in Beijing and Washington D.C., the culture shock of moving between continents, and the transition to attending college in Amherst, MA.

Edited by Rizwan Ayub ’27. Produced by Andrew Rosin ’25.