How I Raised Angel Investments for a Pre-Launch Startup using just Twitter..as a New Grad
By: Gefen Skolnick (she/her)
Who am I?
Let me introduce myself. I’m Gefen and my pronouns are she/her.
I’m a 23-year-old first-gen immigrant.
I’m visibly queer, and I identify as a lesbian.
I spent three years in community college at Santa Monica College, where I spent half those three years working fulltime at AMC Theatres cleaning up bathrooms and the popcorn you leave behind when you leave the theatre. Please pick up your trash after a movie, whenever we finally get to enjoy theatres again! I spent the latter half of community college teaching kids robotics, and also took on a software engineering internship where I learned very quickly — I don’t want to be a software engineer.
There are so many stigmas against community college students, and I’m an active advocate for these students, but I’ve also been working on diversity, inclusion, and equity initiatives for underrepresented (or underestimated as Arlan Hamilton would say) people for the past 5 years. I’m going to write a separate lengthy post about community college students so I won’t go into too much detail here, but long story short — community college students are incredibly underresourced.
