Usha throat biography

At the US presidential inauguration ceremony on Monday, familiar faces like President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump graced the scene once more. However, Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, made their debut, bringing fresh perspectives to the stage.

As she stood beside her husband when he swore in, Usha, in particular, has caught the attention.

So who is Usha Vance, the new US second lady?

Indian roots

The parents of Usha Vance moved to the US in the late 1970s and now teach engineering and molecular biology in San Diego.

While Usha Vance studied at Yale and Cambridge, her father and grandfather both taught or studied at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), India's premier engineering college.

Her younger sister is a mechanical engineer with a semiconductor company in San Diego and an aunt a medical professional in the southern Indian city of Chennai.

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