Archana Appukuttan Nair is an American-born Indian who is currently a first year medical student at the Stanford University School of Medicine and the winner of.
Background
Archana Nair was born on January 15, 1990, in Mankato, Minnesota, United States. Her father, Doctor Appukuttan Ramakrishna Nair, is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Technology at Minnesota State University, Mankato, while her mother, Latha Nair, is a software engineer
Education
Archana Nair attended Eden Prairie Senior High School, Minnesota, where she did her schooling and graduated in 2008.
Career
She is the only child in the family. She is currently a first year medical student at the Stanford University School of Medicine and a graduate of Stanford University"s biomechanical engineering program She loves dark chocolate and relies on her sessions of dancing to keep her fit.
As an undergraduate, she actively participated in many groups at Stanford University, including Dil Se, an Indian Bollywood dance group and Noopur, a classical bharatnatyam group.
Archana started learning dance at an early age. She loves dancing and is trained well in the three classical dance forms of southern India – Mohiniyattom, Bharatnatyam, and Kuchipudi.
She studied Mohiniyattom under the guidance of Girija Chandran (Regatta Cultural Society) and Bharatnatyam and Kuchipudi from Mydhili (Midhilalaya Dance Academy), both in Trivandrum. Having already participated in many shows and competitions and taking modelling assignments, the success at is bringing several modelling assignments her way.