Derek is an Executive Trainer, Coach and Facilitator dedicated to helping individuals and organisations achieve high performance. With extensive experience working with leaders, professionals, and entrepreneurs, he focuses on elevating their skills in areas such as emotional intelligence, leadership, communication, and executive presence.

Andrew Nyaga is a talented up and coming film maker perfecting his craft at The Mason Gross School of The Arts. Over the last 4 years, he has been developing his professional skills as a filmmaker, primarily focusing on Cinematography, Directing, Editing, and Sound Operation. His passion for visual storytelling in narrative, commercial, and documentary filmmaking and his journey were really fun to dive into in this episode of East Times West.

Keith Tino Mundangepfupfu is a graduate of Oxford University and teaches English in Johannesburg. Keith is also an exceptional writer and has written for publications like Brittle Paper and Africa is a Country. It's always a joy reading his work.

Vilma Leino is a Berlin-based photographer. Her work focuses on self-portraiture, which she uses to reflect inner emotions, solitude, and difficult psychological stages. In her work, she creates female characters with untold stories and experiments with strong color schemes, composition, and the human body. The photographs often balance beauty and horror, and she uses humor as an aspect to lighten up darker subjects. Her photographs are a one-woman show, where being in control and the fear of losing it are in a constant dialogue, forming a story about personal growth, where fears are forming into strength.

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Visual Artist and ex-Amazon Engineer Aditya Dandekar shares his journey navigating living in Germany, working in tech and making art. Aditya's work is unified by a relentless attention to detail and a personal philosophy that hinges on blurring the boundaries that separate artistic conception and technology.

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On our first episode of East Times West, we invite Ian Wainaina, a Kenyan Visual Artist in Berlin who creates art based on his life story. He grew up in Kenya and has been living in a mostly white, western world for the last seven years.

His art, which is a mix of abstract ideas, cool materials, and bold experiments, gets people thinking in new and unexpected ways.

He's also worked with some cool clients like Crack Magazine, NyegeNyege Tapes, Draaimolen Music Festival, and the famous Kanal Centre Pompidou in Brussels.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNM4nwn6YxHxOyDZyIJztkA