Maya Rao

1 week ago | timesdaily.com | Maya Rao

MINNEAPOLIS — The pain started while Miriam Orta pushed carts as a hotel housekeeper in Woodbury, Minnesota. She found the sudden aches in her back and shoulder surprising: Orta had worked as a welder in Colombia and her native Venezuela without incident, and just survived a grueling journey to America seeking asylum. kAm$96 H2D D42C65 E@ 8@ E@ E96 5@4E@C — D96 925 ?@ 962=E9 :?DFC2?46] (96? ~CE2 7:?2==J H6?E E@ {2 r=:?:42 :?

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Maya Rao

Why I’m leaning into the shift instead of running from itWhen I first saw an AI model generate lines of code in seconds, I had a moment. That quiet, uncomfortable “Wait… is this going to replace me?” kind of moment. If you’re a software engineer, I bet you’ve felt it too. There’s this persistent anxiety floating around in our industry right now. AI is here. It can write code. It can debug. It can even deploy. And suddenly, the career path we’ve worked so hard to build feels… fragile.

3 weeks ago | gazettextra.com | Maya Rao

MINNEAPOLIS - Abdul Saboor Qaderi finally escaped Afghanistan with his family last fall, but building a new life in Minnesota has brought a new array of hardships for the college-educated father of five. Federal funding has dried up to aid Afghans who, like Qaderi, helped American forces during the war. The government no longer pays for their airfare, or links them with agencies that can help them find housing, jobs and other services during their early months in America.

3 weeks ago | thederrick.com | Maya Rao

MINNEAPOLIS — Abdul Saboor Qaderi finally escaped Afghanistan with his family last fall, but building a new life in Minnesota has brought a new array of hardships for the college-educated father of five. Federal funding has dried up to aid Afghans who, like Qaderi, helped American forces during the war. The government no longer pays for their airfare, or links them with agencies that can help them find housing, jobs and other services during their early months in America.

3 weeks ago | dailygazette.com | Maya Rao

MINNEAPOLIS — Abdul Saboor Qaderi finally escaped Afghanistan with his family last fall, but building a new life in Minnesota has brought a new array of hardships for the college-educated father of five. Federal funding has dried up to aid Afghans who, like Qaderi, helped American forces during the war. The government no longer pays for their airfare, or links them with agencies that can help them find housing, jobs and other services during their early months in America.