Mentoring

In 2009, Ms. Brizel served as the full-time mentor at Palomar5, a residency-based technology innovation incubator developed by a half-dozen young people under the age of 25 running an NGO in Berlin. Funded by Deutsche Telekom, this incubator brought together 30 extraordinary thinkers under the age of 30 from around the world. Ms. Brizel shared her professional expertise, interpersonal communication skills, and technology background to support these young people as they navigated an intense learning and cross-cultural experience. Today, these men and women live all over the world, actively pursuing a wide variety of innovative and impressive careers in technology, higher education, economics, fashion, philanthropy, design, politics, and other highly entrepreneurial endeavors. Ms. Brizel remains in touch with several of them personally and professionally.