Primary Job Title Board of Directors, Stanford Bechtel International Center CCIS Primary Organization Stanford University
Location San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States Regions West Coast, Western US Gender Female Also Known As Seda Mezhieva Kahn
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A product designer by training, translator by experience, and continuous learner by passion — Seda Kahn is on a mission to make the world's products & services more honest, purposeful, and magical. Though educated in Oxford and Dubai, she later immigrated to San Francisco, where she largely explores how “service productization” can be
applied to wicked problems like education, immigration, and self-development. Currently, she is on the Board of Directors at the Stanford University Bechtel International Center’s CCIS, where she supports marketing communications & publicity serving graduate students, postdocs, and visiting scholars. Previously, she has served as a lecture translator & conference organizer in areas like AI and EdTech. She later founded language-learning startup Matrëshka to help Russian-speaking children access the English-speaking world. She is also the author of “A Very Unofficial Guide to the K-1 and CR1 Visas”, a book born of her experiences navigating immigration to the United States during a time of war. Today she lives in California, where she can often be found enjoying mushroom jerky, binging John Oliver, and the occasional game of Rummikub.
