Interview with the Entrepreneur: Yong Yan (Crystal) Liang and Cynthia Lei of OpportuniTeens
Ellen, Business & Career Center, Business & Career Center
In our latest in the “Interview with the Entrepreneur” series we are speaking with Yong Yan (Crystal) Liang and Cynthia Lei, seniors at Staten Island Technical High School, who founded OpportuniTeens, a for-teens-by-teens database of internships, volunteering events and other programs compiled by high school students in the United States. It focuses on several career fields such as STEM, Healthcare, and Civil Services. When did you start OpportuniTeens? The idea of OpportuniTeens was created in December 2019 on a trip to Upstate New York. What made you decide to start the site…
Interview with the Entrepreneur: Jon and Lisa Suneesa of ONE NYC Shop
Ellen, Business & Career Center, Business & Career Center
Our second series is “Interview with the Entrepreneur”, in which we talk with small business owners about what it is like to run (and/or start!) a business during a pandemic. Jon and Lisa Suneesa are owners of ONE NYC Shop, which specializes in well-fitting and highly comfortable reusable face masks, and canvas tote bags. Lisa is the interviewee. When did you start ONE NYC Shop? We started ONE NYC shop at the end of April, during the peak of the pandemic. Our first sales were in person in May and our website was launched by the end of June. What made you decide to start this business…
Interview with the Freelancer: Larry Fitzmaurice
Ellen, Business & Career Center, Business & Career Center
Welcome to the first post of the Work Life blog! We are looking foward to covering work-related topics including job hunting, workplace situations and advice, workers' rights, entrepreneurship and especially, freelancing. We're starting with an interview with a freelancer; the first of a series documenting diverse experiences of freelancing in and around NYC in the time of COVID and beyond. Larry Fitzmaurice is a writer and editor from New Jersey who currently resides in Williamsburg, Brooklyn with his wife, who works as a children's librarian for the Brooklyn Public…