On educating, hospitality, and innovation: An interview with Dipra Jha
If you didn’t know already, the International Man of Hospitality makes his home as a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Dipra Jha. Read Dipra’s story to learn the purpose behind education, the secret to true hospitality, and the reason innovation is key to success. The bespectacled, always impeccably dressed and smiling Dipra Jha entered into my life soon after I began my job at UNL’s Office of Global Strategies in September 2018, at a meeting on for virtual exchange at the university. My first impression upon meeting this International Man of Hospitality: Wow, I can’t wait to pick his brain on all sorts of things. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure to pick his brain about a plethora of topics: cross-cultural competency, menu options at Hiro 88, videography, traveling and more. In fact, I often joke with him that I need to have a map just for “Where in the World is Dipra?” But as I mention at the end of this post, there’s still many more topic...