M Collective

Allie Lieber is a Program Manager at Google Earth Outreach, which means that she travels the world helping non-profits used Google Earth to achieve their missions. She's worked with the Jane Goodall foundation to help preserve chimpanzee habitats in Tanzania, she's worked in South East Asia to identify land mines, and she's even using google maps to help stop the spread of malaria. In this interview we talk about how Allie got this amazing job, how a childhood experience taught her how to lean into fear, and how to avoid getting attacked by baboons.

Monis Khan is an interview producer at Al Jazeera's award winning show, The Stream (well he was when we did this interview over a year ago, now he's taken his talents to ESPN. In this interview we discuss how Monis discovered his dream job and then how he actually got it, what it was like being an American-Muslim teenager in post 9-11 America, and how he is able to consistently start and finish new projects, like a recently completed silent film.

Welcome to the M Collective, an interview series focused on interviewing 20 somethings who seem to have their life together slightly more than the rest of us. They found their passions, are excelling in their careers, or have something unique about them that we can learn from. Hosted by Alex Portera, a former management consultant turned world-traveler and TV producer.