Andre Pancholi | Life-threatening Kidnapped in Ghana, 7 Years Jail Threat, Rhino Incident Nepal, Health Scare Indonesia Hospital, Gap Year, Sustainability/GlobalJustice/Business/Choral Scholar, Religious Transformations | Coffee's on Me, David Quan 权丁文

Coffee's on Me, David Quan 权丁文

Episode 88 of #CoffeesOnMeDavidQuan: Andre Pancholi is a second-year Geography student at Homerton College, University of Cambridge. His primary interests centre around sustainability, politics, ecology, identity, developmental economics and climate change. Motivated by his desire to see a non-environmentally destructive developmental trajectory for the Earth within our lifetime, he has been a part of several grass-roots environmental initiatives, including a community-wide beach clean while volunteering in Ghana, as well as a school-wide tree planting day in his local borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. He has also written several articles on how social media and the internet can empower individuals to drive global social justice movements across the world, with one of these articles winning the prestigious John Locke Essay Prize for Politics and a scholarship of £2,000 (alongside publication in an academic journal). Keen to put his ideas into action, after finishing school he decided to take a gap year, spending almost 6 months living abroad working as a voluntary teacher in Ghana and Nepal. There, he gained insight into the developmental challenges (and successes) of rural communities in the developing world. Now a university student, he is been keen to involve himself in as many different sides of University life as possible - from being a choral scholar of Homerton College, welfare officer of his college's JCR, to being the Vice President of the Geography Society. Outside of University, singing (and music in general) have been important constants throughout his life, and he has been performing in various capacities since the age of 8! Coming from a multicultural background, as well as being the son of a serial entrepreneur, he reflects on how his upbringing has shaped his future career and life ambitions. Having now completed his first year at Cambridge, he has learned a lot from his first year at Cambridge - not only in an academic sense but also socially and mentally.

“This interview was like a therapy session. David is a phenomenal talent at interviewing, and I am so grateful that I had the chance to appear on his podcast. It’s amazing when someone has the power to connect all the dots in someone else’s life and uplift them – no matter what they’ve done in their past, or what they plan to do in the future. David absolutely has that power.” – Andre Pancholi
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