On an unusually sunny day in Amsterdam, I sat across Dennise Yeh, a Taiwanese-born, internationally-bred businesswoman. Dennise is currently the Chief Growth Officer at a coffee consultancy start-up that provides training to stakeholders throughout the coffee value chain, in addition to having their own line of sustainable and innovative coffee. She has previously worked with
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A Look at Online Education from a Student’s Perspective
After the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic around December 2019, our lives have been drastically changed, regardless of which sectors we work in. One example of these sectors is education. The shift from face-to-face to online education, behind our screens, has been our new reality for over a year now. Even though we can assume
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Bitcoin has long held the status of number one cryptocurrency. Since its launch in 2009, individual investors and big corporations alike have stocked up on the digital token. However, the world has since awoken to the sustainability and energy consumption issues around the mining and trading process. Lately, even Elon Musk, one of the most
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Student elections are more crucial than ever before.
On May 31, less than a month after the publication of this piece, the student body of the University of Amsterdam is called to the polls to elect its student councils. These councils, and the students that comprise them, will have the task of representing their peers before the university’s administration, while implementing measures and
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