New Swedes on the BlockHannah, your local music marketing expert and TikTok enthusiastIt’s been five years since I stumbled upon a Facebook post that caught my eye in the “Internationals in Uppsala” group I joined in…4 min read·Jun 22, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockMatias, your local solar expert and ski-instructorThere are varying degrees of spontaneous personalities I hear in these interviews. It’s almost easy to map them out into stereotypes: the…5 min read·Jun 4, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockAlvaro, your local factory architect and cross-fit enthusiastOf all the places in Sweden for an American and a Spaniard to cross paths, it just so happened to be on the airport bus in Skellefteå —…4 min read·Apr 25, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockGared and Zoya, your local consultant/communications expert (and tomato givers)When I meet Zoya and Gared, the snowy, mid-winter backdrop I expected to see via FaceTime is instead a late-summer like sunset, the rich…5 min read·Apr 19, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockGalina Esther Shubina, your local motherbrainI first met Galina when we were 6000 km away from each other — she was in Stockholm and I was in Boston, coincidentally just a short walk…5 min read·Mar 30, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockMiranda, your local battery engineer & plant MomIt started with a cold LinkedIn DM from a (then) relatively unknown start-up that had just transitioned out of its pipe-dream phase to some…4 min read·Mar 23, 2023----
New Swedes on the BlockWhy we’re getting startedI first moved to Sweden in January 2019. As a part of an exchange semester, I was grouped, housed, took classes, and went to parties with…3 min read·Dec 17, 2022----
