I absolutely love meeting people. In the last year, stemming from meetups and online communites, I've probably chatted individually with in-the-healthy-hundreds of new people. Undergraduate students, VCs, founders, developers, product managers, VPs of engineering, professors, and everyone in between.
I typically chat with people about:
Please send me an email with the following to help me out:
I will go out of my way to make time for a 30-minute call for any person who donates at least $100 to one of the following charities and sends me a receipt. The donation should be dedicated to "Chat for Education".
If you cannot donate the $100 minimum to one of these charities, I would still be happy to hear from you! Just no guarantees on timing or availability.
For most of my early life I did not understand the importance of an education. I could not fathom going to college, nor paying for it. After I eventually learned late in secondary school, and later got a full needs-based college scholarship, my family's situation changed and I had to drop out of college anyway. I had no support system to figure things out so I left and have been working in tech ever since. Things worked out for me, but it's a situation I almost never stop thinking about.
Investing in education seems like one of the most effective ways to make a difference.