1179: Helping Refugee Youth Gain Financial Literacy with Charlie Grosso, Founder of Hello Future

Guest Charlie Grosso is the founder of Hello Future, a nonprofit organization that bridges the education gap for adolescent refugees. The organization teaches the essential skills needed to become entrepreneurs and community leaders, starting with digital literacy and basic digital skills and later, storytelling, media literacy, critical thinking, problem-solving and financial literacy. More about Charlie: She is Chinese-American and has 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, having founded her first business at the age of 20. On the show, she describes the challenges of navigating her personal pursuits with her family's cultural expectations for her future, as well as how she's been able to stitch together so many wonderful and different career paths from being a photographer to documentarian to now, running an education non-profit. Learn more at www.hellofuture.io and charliegrosso.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices