Entrepreneur & Experience Designer

Selected as one of 20 from 600 applicants for a five-week government-supported program in Nagasaki Prefecture — engaging with local communities, consulting small businesses on attracting digital nomads, and discovering a city whose history runs far deeper than its association with the atomic bomb.

First dedicated nomad community event — a retreat blending sustainable agriculture, permaculture, breathwork, yoga, and community building — that clarified what mindful, purpose-driven travel looks like in practice and introduced a community of intentional location-independent travelers.

Co-founder and Chief Editor of an AI-powered educational content creation business publishready.org. Automating white-label course and eBook creation, while developing deep fluency in AI tools, editorial operations, and the realities of location-independent entrepreneurship.

The final semester of Minerva University. London fascinated me as a live case study in globalization's paradox — simultaneously the most open and one of the most unaffordable cities in the world. A place where the idea of a "global citizen" becomes something physical: a city that feels like a homeland to people from everywhere. It was during this semester that I truly felt I was experiencing the pinnacle of globalization and how global cities function as self-contained cosmopolitan ecosystems. Post-Brexit London also brought rich reflections on European cultural identity — and how London both embodies and complicates it.

The seventh semester of Minerva University. Taiwan surprised me with how closely its geopolitical situation mirrored Latvia's own relationship with a larger, threatening neighbor. The semester was shaped by conversations about sovereignty, Taiwan's centrality in the global semiconductor and tech supply chain, and how a small country navigates identity and existential pressure — without losing itself in the process.

The sixth semester of Minerva University, and the one where I felt most personally and culturally challenged — confronting the limits of my own Western background more directly than anywhere else. My key fascination was recognizing how dangerously outdated and reductive the West's image of India tends to be: Hyderabad's digital infrastructure and economic dynamism flatly contradict the narrative of the Global South as underdeveloped. The semester also brought deeper reflections on how colonialism shapes the inner lives, hierarchies, and self-perception of postcolonial societies — and on the striking contrast between India's opportunistic, pragmatic approach to progress and Europe's more cautious, institutionally rigid one.

Working within the Buenos Aires city government on urban integration for Barrio 31 — one of Latin America's largest and most storied informal settlements — conducting research into green space design, housing relocation, and community-centered development.

Ran for the Latvian parliament from a small progressive party with almost no electoral presence — and helped deliver a surprise result: 10 seats on a fraction of the budget of established parties, through grassroots mobilization and genuine people-centered campaigning.

Led a group of Latvian participants to an arts-based environmental youth exchange in Sumgait — returning to the same city where a volunteer placement had been served years earlier, closing a meaningful personal circle and staging a public performance for the city.

Interning at an early-stage reusable packaging startup during the Berlin semester, researching European market expansion — assessing country-by-country receptivity, competitor landscape, and growth strategy for a sustainability-first business model.

The fourth semester of the Minerva University journey. Returning to Europe, but through the lens of a US university, brought lots of reflections on Transatlantic relations and my own European identity. I was studying migration and refugee crises in the classroom at the same moment the war in Ukraine began — and being in Berlin for that alongside my Ukrainian classmates meant experiencing the flows of refugees, anti-war protests, and collective grief firsthand, not just as theory.

A week-long policy development program in Prague, co-authoring recommendations on security and the European enlargement with a cohort of young Europeans and engaging with the security challenges that would intensify with Russia's invasion the following year.

A four-year concurrent internship managing student housing operations for Minerva's San Francisco residence — handling leasing, marketing, customer support, and occupancy planning, including building a custom Excel tracking system in the first year.

Working with Gensler during the San Francisco semester was an early and formative introduction to how design shapes social reality. The core question we were working on — how do you design public spaces that genuinely serve both homeless populations and the broader local community — turned out to be one of the most politically and ethically rich design problems I could have encountered at that stage.

The location of the first year at Minerva University. It was my first real confrontation with America's contradictions. Growing up in Eastern Europe, I had absorbed the mythology of the American dream — but the Bay Area showed me something far more complicated: extraordinary tech wealth living blocks away from one of the country's most visible homelessness crises.

A week-long seminar with top EU officials and youth political activists focused on disinformation — convened at a moment when Russian information warfare campaigns were intensifying — offering structured knowledge and a cohort of future European decision-makers.

A self-organized solo research journey through East and West Germany on €600 — spending time in Dresden, Berlin, and rural Obernhaus — that provided an early warning about rising polarization, the AfD, and the complex reality behind Eastern Europe's idealized image of Germany.

Promoted EU campaigns — including "EU and Me" — at public events across Latvia, approaching ordinary citizens in person and making institutional policies feel relevant, accessible, and human.

Joined a youth consultation with the European Commission in Sibiu, providing direct feedback on strategic priorities to President Juncker's team alongside young people from across Europe — and gaining a clearer view of how institutions manage — and limit — youth participation.

When travel abroad was not possible, brought the world home instead — coordinating 12 international volunteers from 12 countries for four weeks of community development work in Valmiera.

When travel abroad was not possible, brought the world home instead — coordinating 12 international volunteers from 12 countries for four weeks of community development work in Valmiera, turning a constraint into a creative opportunity.

My first time outside Europe, and my first time in a truly globally diverse group — with participants from Arab states and European countries sitting at the same table. The course forced a reckoning with how differently gender equality is understood, debated, and lived across cultural and religious contexts, and how to hold those differences in honest, respectful dialogue.

A course that challenged urban-centric assumptions about where meaningful work and innovation happen. The focus on rural development, permaculture, and sustainable supply chains opened up a way of thinking about opportunity that had been largely invisible in my education up to that point.

Attended the training course to build the practical foundations for all the youth facilitation work that followed. Learning nonviolent communication, group dynamics, and experiential learning design gave me a toolkit I returned to again and again — in every youth exchange I later organized or led.

Co-organized a fully youth-led two-week international exchange in the Latvian countryside, hosting participants from five countries and guiding them through social entrepreneurship ideation from problem identification to pitch — bringing the international to a rural community.

A formative foundation in youth leadership, civil society, and community organizing — growing from an eighth-grade activist to team leader managing international projects out of a small Latvian town, and learning that communities can improve their own lives without waiting for someone else to act.