Cultural Connect’s Sumaya Kazi on CNN
CNN’s Young People Who Rock recently interviewed Sumaya Kazi of Cultural Connect.
By Pavani Yalamanchili, July 17, 2007, Business, Media, Weblogs, TV, News, Nirali, Daily
[1] Young People Who Rock, CNN’s weekly interview series hosted by [2] Nicole Lapin and focused on people under 30 recently interviewed [3] Sumaya Kazi of The Cultural Connect, a media publishing company with a series of online magazines spotlighting young minority professionals. Watch the [4] CNN Live Video interview. Kazi took a few questions from Lapin, and if we didn’t hear it from Kazi herself—“Don’t laugh! it’s my first ever on-camera interview!”—we wouldn’t have guessed that this appearance marks her TV debut. Lapin, on the other hand, struck me as a tiny bit awkward, dropping the “Asian” from “Southeast Asian” (or perhaps she meant “South/East Asian”), resulting in the phrases “Southeast Trinity” and “Southeast background,” the latter referring to Kazi’s background. Maybe words like South Asian or South Asian American don’t exactly roll of the tongues of every news anchor. Or perhaps Lapin was nervous about interviewing someone who has been running with the new CNN show’s basic premise for two years now over at [5] The Cultural Connect!
Lapin and Kazi on Larry King’s set. (Courtesy CNN PR, Sumaya Kazi)
Previously: [6] “Business Week Names Kazi to Top 25 Under 25″
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URLs in this post:
[1] Young People Who Rock: http://www.cnn.com/exchange/blogs/ypwr/2007/07/sumaya-kazi.html
[2] Nicole Lapin: http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/15-07/st_cnn
[3] Sumaya Kazi: http://niralimagazine.com/2006/11/creating-community/
[4] CNN Live Video interview: http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/07/13/ypwr.intv.sumaya.kazi.cnn
[5] The Cultural Connect: http://www.theculturalconnect.com/magazines/desi/blog/2007/06/18/cnns-young-peop
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[6] “Business Week Names Kazi to Top 25 Under 25″: http://niralimagazine.com/2006/10/businessweek-names-kazi-to-top-25-under-25/
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