Undergraduate
Shreyas Cotha emails, “I am a member of my family’s sixth generation to work in our business, C. Krishniah Chetty & Sons, a jeweler in Bangalore, India. A gem enthusiast and one of the few gemologists in Bangalore, I graduated from the Gemological Institute of America in California. I travel worldwide to collect exquisite gemstones, bringing them back to create fine jewelry. In 2011, I went mining for tourmalines in California, where I found a 120-carat watermelon tourmaline. Last May, I traveled to Sri Lanka and returned with some gorgeous sapphires and other gemstones.”