New York City

About Us - Janera Soerel

Co-Leader at Ladies Who Launch
Founder of JANERA.COM
http://www.janera.com

Janera Soerel is the Founder and Publisher of JANERA.com, The Voice of Global Nomads. Born and raised on Curaçao by Surinamese parents, Soerel went to Georgetown University and finished her undergraduate degree at the London School of Economics. She then obtained a Masters in Economics from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
Economics degree in hand, Soerel worked for years in investment banking on cross-border corporate finance deals in Italy and The Netherlands. Realizing that finance was not her life’s work, Soerel enrolled at Columbia University in New York, graduating with a dual MBA/MIA degree in business and international affairs. She subsequently spent time at a design and branding firm, where she learned about the power of the Web, images, and design. In 2007 she launched JANERA.com. Soerel also hold regular events where pressing global issues get discussed in attractive, non-academic, non-intimidating settings that fit the lifestyle of Global Nomads. Her aim is to bring subjects like Immigration, Globalization, the Credit Crunch, and American Foreign Policy, to a larger audience. Soerel became a Global Nomad by choice—now fluent in five languages, a former resident of more than half a dozen cities (including Washington, London, Santiago, Amsterdam, Milan, and New York), she has friends everywhere. Soerel is endlessly curious, and finds herself increasingly drawn to global stories told from a human perspective, and not the usual macro tales that relate to aggregate numbers. She is also drawn to the many ways fellow nomads—who, like her, operate in the space between groundedness and restlessness—socialize in their adopted environments.