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Mohammed Ahsanul is an international student at the University of Wyoming. Once he finishes his Ph.D., he expects to return home to Dhaka, Bangladesh—but not before his family reunites with him for the first time since the pandemic began.

Producer Naina Rao joins Mohammed and his family for a trip to see America as she examines the ways a better life in the U.S. doesn’t always mean a permanent stay.

As a young woman of 26, Naina Rao (pronounced NIGH-na ROW, rhymes with “now”) is certainly making her presence felt and heard as an up-and-coming radio and podcast journalist. Just listen to her work for Feet in 2 Worlds, an initiative backed by the Ford Foundation. On an October episode of their podcast “A Better Life?” that she reported and hosted, Naina discussed the challenges international graduate students face when they can’t visit their families back home during COVID-19.

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