My team!

Hey you!

As I promised, this post is about my team mates in SSGN Board 06 07.

First, the Big Boss.
Araz Najarian.
Araz is Canadian, from Toronto, but she lives in Ottawa, the capital of Canada. She moved to Ottawa to go to school (I’m not sure, but I think she is graduated in social sciences… I will ask her and post here later). And in Ottawa she got involved with AIESEC.

She is in AIESEC for many years. She was LCP for 2 years, was on the CC team of IC 2002 in Canada, she was in Canada MC for 2 years, being the MCP in the last year (05-06) and now is an AI Director.

She is a great mix of several different cultures. Her parents moved to Canada from South Arabia, where they lived for many years. Her father is originally from Iraq and her mother is from Lebanon, and before that her ancestrals are from Armenia. And she dates an Indian guy.

Ah, and she loves Paulo Coelho. She was really surprised when I told her that here in Brazil Paulo Coelho isn’t considered a good writer, although his books are always best sellers. (I’ve never read any of his books… I think I will read one, for curiosity, to try to discover why people love him so much in many countries).

Piret Potisepp.
Piret is from Estonia, where she graduated as Food Engineer (the first I’ve met, I think). She is in AIESEC since 2002 (or 2003, I’m not sure) and during the last year she worked in Ecuador as MCVP Learning Projects. In Ecuador she created different projects and it qualified the country to receive a Regional Award this year.

Now, Piret is going to work with me in the Board as the “Social Entrepreneurship Talent Development Coordinator”, being responsible for all the projects based on this issue (Social Entrepreneurship) and managing the partnerships with Ashoka and Artemisia and Kellog’s Foundations.

Piret is a really interesting person. She seems to be weak, fragile, maybe because she speaks calmly and the tone of her voice is always low. But once you get to know her, you are surprised with her strong personality and an interesting sense of humor, so sarcastic that sometimes she is mean :P.

Piret is a great friend. She is very supportive, always ready to help you with the things you need and also sharing knowledge/information. And she is soooo funny! Rotterdam wouldn't be the same without her! :)

Other thing about Piret: she loves to eat! She eats a lot, man! You can’t imagine how much! If you ever have the opportunity to meet her, I can bet that she will be eating in the moment you're introduced to each other :). But the best thing is that she is so thin! She doesn’t seem to be the kind of person who is always concerned with the weight. I’m sure that many girls would like to be lucky like her.


Ezequiel Luberriaga.
Ezequiel is originally from Argentina, and now is in Venezuela working in the national office of AIESEC in the country as National Director of External Relations.

He was the last member to be selected, his selection happened when we were already there in Rotterdam and that’s why I don’t know him personally yet (I will meet him in IC, next August). But for sure he must be a nice person, because he is friend of Laura and Marife, two of the girls I love the most in my life.

[[Marife is from Vitoria, my city. She was in Argentina some years ago and worked as OC in a national conference in the country (before AIESEC Southern Cone). And Laura is one of my best friends in AIESEC, she is from Argentina and was in a CEED in Vitoria in 2005, when I was LCP (and we had great time together).]]

By the way: Ezequiel has sent these photos exclusively to post here in the blog. Thanks, dude!


The Board will have more 2 coordinators:
- Sarah, from USA and MC in Costa Rica in 05-06, who will be the Kellogs Partnership Coordinator;
- The IS manager, who is not selected yet but it will be or brazilian or colombian.


So diverse in origin, personal experiences and professional background, this people will be my team for this year. For sure it will be a different and interesting experience.