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When appointments to a prestigious Tennessee Governor\u2019s Management Fellowship are awarded each year, only five of the state\u2019s most promising young people are chosen. In December 2021, Varsha Kommireddi (\u201922, business) was one of the five. Photo by Angela Foster.<\/p><\/div>\n

Varsha Kommireddi began her senior year at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a resume that already was stellar.<\/p>\n

Dean\u2019s list all eight semesters. John C. Stophel Scholar in the Gary W. Rollins College of Business. Dean\u2019s Student Advisory Council executive. Peer mentor. UTC tour guide. Student worker. Active sorority sister in Sigma Kappa.<\/p>\n

A \u201ccampus ambassador for UTC\u201d is how she listed herself on her LinkedIn profile.<\/p>\n

On to graduate school for an MBA was supposed to be the next step after executing her plan to graduate with a bachelor\u2019s degree in business in May, but feelings of doubt started creeping into Kommireddi\u2019s plan. The self-reflection got hard, and her heart sank.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo I really want to spend two years in grad school?\u201d she asked herself. \u201cOr am I doing what I\u2019ve always done, which is living life on a to-do list basis?\u201d<\/p>\n

She needed some direction, some inspiration, some advice.<\/p>\n

Kommireddi talked with a few UTC advisors and some friends, then went to see her dad\u2014her \u201cbaba,\u201d as she calls him in their native tongue Telugu, spoken mostly in southeastern India.<\/p>\n

The oldest daughter of Narsing Kommireddi and Madhavi Balla, who moved to the U.S. in the early 1990s from Visakhapatnam, India, Varsha was born in Mount Juliet, Tennessee, just outside Nashville. She was raised in a group of tight-knit, Indian-American families where adult family friends are \u201caunties and uncles\u201d and academic expectations are high among kids and parents.<\/p>\n

An Ivy League education, then on to a career in engineering, medicine or law are considered the best in Indian culture, she said.<\/p>\n

Her parents were steeped in this version of success but are open-minded and have come to celebrate their three children\u2019s different strengths, too, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy generation of Indians, I guess, we\u2019re changing stereotypes. We\u2019re challenging the status quo. I chose business because I wanted to do what my dad did,\u201d said Kommireddi, who sports a keychain with her father\u2019s company logo on it.<\/p>\n

He built a successful financial services company through Primerica and embodies \u201cThat typical, fresh-off-the-boat success story,\u201d Kommireddi said. She was \u201craised in the company\u201d but never asked why he chose that field. In her moment of existential woe, she finally did, and he said he was \u201cbuilding a legacy,\u201d not just a business.<\/p>\n

She tapped into her dad\u2019s purpose and, in doing so, her own.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo hear him say something that carried such significance, I was like, \u2018I want that too,\u2019\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Her anxiety broke like a fever, and her vision of working toward a legacy became clear, even if her next move was still to be determined.<\/p>\n

Feeling \u2018seen, heard, loved\u2019<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Just a few weeks earlier, in the midst of her college-life crisis, an academic advisor urged Kommireddi to apply for the Tennessee Governor\u2019s Management Fellowship.<\/p>\n

A people-oriented business major, she had never considered working in the public sector; so along with applying to graduate school, she \u201cjust went for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kommireddi made it to the first round of interviews for the highly competitive fellowship, which puts recipients to work in management teams with some of the state\u2019s most powerful government executives.<\/p>\n

She made the second cut and, by November 2021, was named a finalist. Fellowship organizers put her up in the swanky Hermitage Hotel in downtown Nashville for the last trial.<\/p>\n

She slayed the rapid-fire, question-and-answer sessions with her competitors\u2014which included law students and young working professionals\u2014and mingled with ease at the business-casual mixers with government leaders.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m articulate and quick-thinking, but you know, you\u2019re interviewing with people who are choosing five candidates to represent the state, so it was cutthroat, the real deal,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was like, \u2018I\u2019m going to go in there. I\u2019m going to give it a shot.\u2019 The further I got in the interview process, the more I wanted it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the fierce competition, she stayed true to her motto: \u201cDo and be better; and make people feel seen, heard and loved.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her approach obviously worked, and she found out she won a place in the fellowship program in December, just as the first semester of her last year of college was coming to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a great honor and I\u2019m slowly starting to realize just exactly what I\u2019m going to be able to do and who I\u2019ll be able to work with,\u201d Kommireddi said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of the day, I wanted to continue serving. Now I just get to do that on a much larger scale for my state and its people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her family back home in Mount Juliet and her community of friends, professors, advisors, sorority sisters and others here at UTC have helped her become who she is today, she said.<\/p>\n

But her hero?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy honest answer would be the woman I\u2019m becoming,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

This is an updated version of a story that first appeared in the spring 2022 issue of <\/em>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the pages of University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Magazine: When appointments to a prestigious Tennessee Governor\u2019s Management Fellowship are awarded each year, only five of the state\u2019s most promising young people are chosen. In December 2021, Varsha Kommireddi (\u201922, business) was one of the five.<\/p>\n

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