Claire D’Orsay #DreamerBerlin

Claire speaks about:

Her journey of love that brought her to Berlin, living in Berlin for the last 10 years and her connection to home in the US
Her passion for the art of framing, challenges in the trade and why craftmanship is the future
Berlin’s gentrification and the impact on her recently founded, investor-financed restaurant in Kreuzberg
Her entrepreneurial personality and interests in DYI, gastronomy and framing in the start-up friendly environment of Berlin
How internationality should equal empathy, and how it can make us more human, but at the same time is not synonymous with diversity and the need for integration efforts
Historical differences in how immigrants are treated in Germany and in the US; differences between the way the Berlin neighborhoods and New York boroughs are perceived
Her experience with the feeling of community in her neighbourhood and how it is opposite to the anonymity found in the big city
The importance of freedom and the fact that it should not be taken for granted