Education
Production team:Host : Maria XenidouIntroduction Voice: David Bourne Contact us:impactlearningpodcast(at)gmail.com Music credits:Like Lee performed by The Mini VandalsTransition sounds: Swamp Walks performed by Jingle Punks Where to find more about Susanne Cappendijk and EDsnaps:Susanne on LinkedInEDsnaps Mentioned in this episode:Erasmus University RotterdamKarolinska Institutet - a medical universityFlorida State UniversityJohn F. Kennedy High School (New York City)Herman Miller FoundationADPPalm Drive Capital Listen to this episode and explore:Childhood in the Netherlands: a deep love for books and spending time at her Dad's work (3:49)University: her studies and research in Biology, Neuroscience and Pharmacology (7:45)How Susanne views our human ability to learn (10:42)Her decision to pursue an MBA and the path to her current role (13:56)How students build hard and soft skills alongside Susanne (18:48)The origin of EDsnaps: learning to solve a problem with the resources at hand (22:31)EDsnaps’ mission: empowering female-identifying students to reach their full potential (25:19)The growth journey of EDsnaps: from their first pilot program to today (28:00)How Susanne pivoted their in-person programs to entirely online during the pandemic (32:30)EDsnaps’ new 8-week summer program in 2020 (34:34)The Continuously Learning Officer program: a co-ed leadership program for high school and college students (38:29)How Susanne responded to the lost summer internships of her students (41:08)Creating leadership opportunities for students through a peer-mentoring program (42:41)Fostering leadership in underserved students through collaboration and uniting forces (44:04)Leveraging partnerships to serve needs and wants of their students (48:09)The role of volunteers in the EDsnaps programs (53:25)How EDsnaps gets funding (55:25)How they measure the success of their programs (57:13)What Susanne wants to leave her mark on during her lifetime (1:03:07)