
Christine Looser: What's in a Face?
Christine Looser is a a fan of curiosity, productive failure, and dangerous playgrounds. Prof. Looser is a behavioral scientist at Minerva where she has taught brand strategy, led the business college, and now heads professional learning partnerships. She's fascinated by how humans learn, change their minds, and build social connections.
2 Dec 202224min

Savannah Casavant-Jackson: Don't Wear Black - Changing Schools and Personality
Savannah (M24) is a French Canadian from Ottawa. She spent two years living in Costa Rica at UWC, an international boarding school. She is an Arts and Business major who strives to incorporate creativity into everything she does. She loves fashion, ballet, tattoos, painting, pottery, video editing, and more!
28 Nov 202225min

Kseniia Maslakova: No Time to Stop
Kseniia (M24) is the definition of a tight schedule, constant adventures and being grounded. Her classmates refer to her as "the one who has her things together," while during the last two years, she has completed 9 internships, visited 16 countries and established a perfect algorithm to find an ideal coffee place to work from. She is into web 3.0, migration, tango, finance, coffee, investments and poetry — it seems that 20 y.o. Ukrainian discovered how to value and live through every moment of her life.
12 Nov 202228min

Alhassan Ahmed El-Boraey: Inside Out
Alhassan (M26) has changed a lot over the years on the journey toward purpose and happiness, and like many Minervans, had to overcome a lot to get there. Currently, he lives in San Francisco and he is seeking internships in business and Tech. He's interested in mental well-being, helping others, and discovering himself better. In his non-spare time, he is playing video games, writing stories, watching anime, and maybe playing soccer.
7 Nov 202228min

Mark Kukis: Shucking Oysters and War Journalism
Mark Kukis is a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute and Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at the Minerva Schools, where he teaches government. Kukis spent a decade as a journalist before joining academia, including three years covering the American occupation of Iraq and the early phase of the American intervention in Afghanistan. He currently lives in the Boston area with his wife and two children.
28 Okt 202231min

Kay Wenger: There is No Health Without Mental Health
Kay (M20) has changed a lot over the years on the journey towards purpose and happiness, and like many Minervans, had to overcome a lot to get there. Currently, she lives in Berlin and works for a startup on People & Culture topics. She's passionate about mental well-being, social justice, and the outdoors. In her non-spare time, she is bouldering, swimming, working on climate activism, going to parties, and generally learning, growing, and enjoying Berlin.
21 Okt 202233min

Jackie Trang: Benefits of a Bubble
Jackie is an M22 at Minerva who is living in Seattle and working at Meta. She thinks she changed a lot over time, because she constantly cringes at herself for what she said or the things she posted about just a year before. But who cares because YOLO!
14 Okt 202220min

Nikki Eberhardt: Freneticism
Nikki Eberhardt’s life goal is to power people with audacious solutions, armed to tackle the globe’s most intractable challenges. Aside from being on Global Citizen's talent team, on Delta Air Lines' Global Talent team, and a business professor at Minerva, Prof. Eberhardt is also a loving mother, sister, and wife. She hopes to pass the same value of service to one's community that her parents taught her to her children. In her spare time, Prof. Eberhardt loves to partake in dangerous hobbies done carefully like scuba diving, paragliding, and riding motorcycles. To contact her and for more info, check out her website: https://www.nikkieberhardt.com/
7 Okt 202229min





















