Hi, I’m Rusha.

I spent years huddled in the halls of medicine and academics, learning science and caring for the sick. It’s been my life’s work.

I was a bioethics major in college, a fantastic combination of the philosophical and the pragmatic. Essential questions were encapsulated in modern scenarios affecting real people. It was a mishmash of law, ethics, biology, religious studies, and public policy. Above all, it taught me the value of asking a good question. I never lost my love of those roundtable discussions with committed, funny, and intelligent people trying to find what is good and real in this world.

From student to doctor, I learned to care for patients. Facing human illness daily was a struggle. It is a journey that has been challenging, beautiful, messy, but hopefully a little ennobling. I soon realized that often the roots of my patients’ problems existed outside the clinic room—asthma tied to pollution, obesity connected to food deserts, systemic disparities landing vulnerable patients bleeding in the ER or ICU, and at the wrong end of my endoscope.

I did what I was trained to do in college: I asked, “why?” Why have we created an utterly illogical healthcare system in the US? If homelessness is such a problem, why don’t we just build more houses? Why have we anchored our entire economy to unsustainable energy systems? I approached these questions like a doctor—looking at the evidence, identifying the leading experts, questioning why our leaders rely on sound bites and theatrics instead of real solutions, and wondering how we can actually fix this patient called our political system that seems to be declining in health rapidly.

This struggle led me to create The Tomorrow List, a podcast and community of solution-minded seekers. It is a space for discussions that are intellectually rigorous and emotionally compassionate, conversations that both illuminate and challenge in equal measure. And, of course, with a dollop of silly humor on the side—because it can’t all be sturm und drang.