The Story of Windy Zou Kohl

Today I came across an article published in November by Maddux Business Report that profiled Windy Zou Kohl, a 1993 recipient of a graduate degree in international communications from American University. It is a fascinating look at someone who watched the events in Tiananmen Square and decided to head to the U.S. for a graduate education. She wound up with a scholarship to AU, where she also changed her first name to Windy since Xiaojie, her given name, proved too hard for professors to pronounce. Today, she works for GTE and is married to a hedge fund manager ("My husband is as American as you can get,” she told the author). Certainly a long way from her original goal of becoming a Chinese diplomat. This link takes you to what appears to be an abbreviated version of her story, but it's worth taking a few minutes to read.