I was just 3 months old when my family came to the United States, so I grew up here. My parents are now retired physicians — my father a transplant nephrologist and my mother a pathologist. They came here for their residencies, probably not expecting to be here for the rest of their lives. But the country and the community grew on them. My family became very involved in Detroit’s Indian American community and, specifically, its large South Indian community. It was a great childhood for my younger brother and me. I still have family and friends in the Detroit area and across the country who are extraordinarily close to me.