The Interview Posts
The Interview: Tom O’Keefe, A Millennial Teacher
Categories: Education Week, The Interview
Tom O’Keefe graduated from Villanova University with a major in Communication and a minor in Business. As a member of the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, Tom teaches a weekly writing class for high school sophomores, helps with junior college counseling and tutors algebra. He shares his thoughts on the role of technology in the classroom, his [...]
The Interview: Anthony Kalamut, Creative Advertising Professor & Program Coordinator
Categories: Education Week, The Interview
Ten words. Two letters each. “IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME.” What makes you do the things you do? It’s all up to you to do it. My professor taught me this. Anthony Kalamut is a professor and program coordinator of the Creative Advertising program at Seneca College in Toronto. I’m [...]
The Interview: Alex Cattoni “Personal development junkie. Marketing diva. Thrill-seeker.”
Categories: The Interview
Much has been thought, written and said about the ideal Gen Y lifestyle on this blog. Most of us dream it but Alex Cattoni is among the lucky few that lives it. She’s “living the dream” as a Senior Marketer in MindValley (an awesome company featured in TNGG’s Work Posts). Two years ago, she packed [...]
The Interview: Elliott Bisnow and Brett Leve, Summit Series Entrepreneurs
Categories: The Interview
Described as “a mutual aid society for young entrepreneurs,” Summit Series brings together young entrepreneurs, innovators, and influencers with the aim of effecting positive social change. Its young and inspiring founders, Elliott Bisnow and Brett Leve, ages twenty-four and twenty-five, answer the questions of the also young and inspiring TNGG staff. How does someone so [...]
The Interview: Dr. Patrice Oppliger, author of Girls Gone Skank
Categories: Sex Week, The Interview
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. In 1997, Britney Spears’s pleated miniskirt and overuse of the word “baby” sparked a pop culture phenomenon that spanned the boundary between beanie babies and booty shorts. An effusive force of provocation and growing [...]
The Interview: Elle Magazine’s E. Jean Carroll
Categories: Sex Week, The Interview
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. Interview by Gillian Maffeo: “I am a staunch Republican. I was born wearing stilettos and Coco Chanel perfume. Fact: I can find a pair of Manolo Blahniks for $50.” I met her when I [...]
Interview with Jason Stewart: Volunteer of our Generation
Categories: The Interview
Jason Stewart is a college senior and current president of Circle K International (CKI). It is the world’s largest collegiate service organization with more than 12,000 members in 17 nations. Each year Circle K members perform more than 1 million hours of service on their campuses and in their communities every year. As the international [...]
The Interview: Lucy Setian, environmental blogger
Categories: The Interview
Lucy Setian just won the overall impact award on TH!NK ABOUT IT: Climate Change, a 3 month blogging competition with a focus on the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) in December 2009 and organized by the European Journalism Centre. She blogs on everything green from eco-sex to Bulgarian green initiatives to interactive plant fights. [...]
The Interview: Marnie Florin, Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia
Categories: The Interview
Marnie Florin is one of the thousands Millennials involved with volunteering programs abroad. She graduated from Emory University with a degree in history and now she is a Peace Corps Volunteer in The Gambia, West Africa. We enjoyed the power of Internet to ask Marnie several questions about her volunteering experience, cultural differences and how [...]
The Interview: Heather Huhman, Gen Y Expert & Founder of Come Recommended
Categories: The Interview
Full disclosure: I work with Heather as the external relations director of GoodieRecruit. Heather Huhman is your typical over-achieving, type A, never sleeps, always connected, fully loaded, energizer bunny. At twenty-seven years old she still falls into the category of Gen Y, but her resume reads more like someone twenty years her senior. Huhman is already [...]