TED Community » Sandra Freeman Pikorova

About Me

Hi there! My name is Sandra. I was fortunate enough to have been born in Prague, a beautiful city in the heart of Europe, at a very peculiar time in history: just around the time of the Velvet Revolution and the fall of Communism. During my teenage years I had a unique opportunity to witness the economic transformation of Czechoslovakia into a capitalist country and a member of the European Union. I completed most of my post-secondary education in the U.K., Canada and U.S., where I lived for about 7 years. As a result, I'm bilingual in English and Czech and am also fluent in French. My early college years were spent studying the humanities and linguistics during which I came to appreciate the great classics of philosophy, literature and art. Later, fascinated by the various forms of organization I observed in social life, I decided to shift my focus and pursue studies in economics in a ongoing quest that has yet to satisfy my hunger for understanding world issues on a global scale.