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…Jun 22, 2023Jun 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…Jun 4, 2023Jun 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 —…Apr 25, 2023Apr 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…Apr 19, 2023Apr 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…Mar 30, 2023Mar 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…Mar 23, 2023Mar 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…Dec 17, 2022Dec 17, 2022