Nischa.me

London-based woman of color ibanker financial literacy creator

She presents very professionally and has zero filler words in her videos. Her content has substance and is useful to me. She also committed to transparency and disclosed her income over the last 9 years publicly in hopes that it’d help others, love that!

I learned about fintech app Trader212 with her. You can trade with fake money to learn how it all works. You can create portfolios and see how they perform then copy that to your real portfolio.

Julia Haart

she’s a badass business woman who also fights for women’s rights all day everyday because she gets it with a personal story that showcases her strength as a woman

Julia Haart is such a badass and so proud of her for fighting her ex Silvio who exhibits so many narcissist abuser behaviors ugh. The legal process is grueling for victims and takes so much of your time and energy and peace and money. I hope the process goes as quickly as possible for her and love the work she’s doing to help women have rights and freedoms.

Ocean Vuong

Ocean Vuong’s ‘On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous’ is permanently stunning

“He was born in Saigon in 1988 . . . Vuong didn’t learn to read until he was 11, but before he was 30, his poetry had won a slate of major honors, including the T.S. Eliot Prize, and been published in Poetry magazine, the New Yorker and other prestigious journals . . . In summary, his is the archetypal immigrant story on rocket fuel.”

👏That and his prose is beautiful.❤️Feeling so proud to see more Vietnamese-American/refugee voices being shared by my generation.

Priscilla Chan

Love Priscilla! “Priscilla’s family story is amazing, it’s an inspiring thing for all of us. You see what’s possible when people have opportunity and you level the playing field . . . Her parents were ethnic Chinese who came to the US from Saigon, part of the wave of refugees known colloquially as Vietnamese boat people. ‘You literally put your children on a boat, say goodbye, and hope to meet them on the other side,’ says Chan, who was raised speaking Cantonese. ‘There are horror stories of families putting all their kids on one boat and it sinks, they lose their children. Both sets of my grandparents, who were in the same community, paired their kids, so if a given boat sank they’d only lose a kid each, which is a crazy calculus'”

We also have other things in common I didn’t know about before:

✅A crier who can publicly acknowledge that, even in professional settings

✅AP Environmental Science as a sophomore (except I was the only sophomore that year 😬)

✅Valedictorian

✅Loves working with kids

Quartz article on Priscilla

Sadio Mane

Sadio Mane, a Senegalese soccer star, earns approximately $10.2 million annually. He gave the world a rude awakening after some fans were flabbergasted when they saw him carrying a cracked iPhone 11. His response was awesome:
“Why would I want ten Ferraris, 20 diamond watches, and two jet planes? I starved, I worked in the fields, played barefoot, and I didn’t go to school. Now I can help people. I prefer to build schools and give poor people food or clothing. I have built schools and a stadium, provide clothes, shoes, and food for people in extreme poverty. In addition, I give 70 euros per month to all people from a very poor Senegalese region in order to contribute to their family economy. I do not need to display luxury cars, luxury homes, trips, and even planes. I prefer that my people receive some of what life has given me.”