Effie Kapsalis

Jun 17

“Good” Immigrants

I grew up in a suburb on the north shore of Lake Michigan in the 1970s and 80s that was much like the one in the movie that Breakfast Club was based on. The median income of my first high school , New Trier, today stands at an astonishing $178,581[1]…

Culture

7 min read

Jun 2

What the Tech Sector Can Learn from Cultural Heritage

Phase 1: Boom or Bust After leaving undergrad in 1993, I stumbled into a job at an educational and training software company after a stint cooking in a local market deli. Little did I know I also stumbled into the dot com boom. The company hired liberal arts majors, of which I was one in…

Cultural Heritage

8 min read

Effie Kapsalis

Effie Kapsalis is an awesome age cultural heritage technologist who grew up in the 1990s dot com boom and bust. She is a 1st generation Greek American.

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