Born in Saigon, An-my Lê came to the US as a teenager fleeing Vietnam at the end of the war. After completing her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biology from Stanford University, she received a Master of Fine Arts from Yale School of Art in 1993. Her work has been exhibited in solo shows at several prestigious venues including the NY MOMA and galleries abroad.
Eva Hesse’s family fled Nazi Germany when she was a toddler and moved to the U.S. a year later. After attending many area schools in New York for Art, including Cooper Union, Hesse transferred to Yale and received her B.A. in 1959. At Yale, she was a student of the famous Josef Albers and was influenced by Abstract Expressionism.
After completing her undergraduate studies at the University of Madras and graduate studies from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) in India, Nooyi traveled to the Yale School of Management (SOM). A member of only the third class to graduate from SOM, she received a master’s degree in public and private management in 1980. As a business executive, Nooyi had a long career at various companies before landing at Pepsi where she served as CEO for 12 years.
