Astri von Arbin Ahlander, Co-Founder of The Lattice Group (www.thelatticegroup.org) and a native of Stockholm, Sweden, is an aspiring writer and filmmaker who joins the Columbia University School of the Arts community in September to pursue an MFA in nonfiction writing.

Yelizavetta Kofman, Co-Founder of The Lattice Group and sometimes resident of Los Angeles, California via St. Petersburg, Russia, is an aspiring sociologist of sorts.

About The Lattice Group:

The Lattice Group is a grassroots non-profit organization that engages young people in a public dialogue about the issues that arise when trying to balance personal, family, and work obligations in a globalized economy. Founded in 2007 by two graduating Middlebury College students concerned with the inflexibility of of the American work culture they were about to enter, The Lattice Group conducts non-partisan, comparative research on work-life issues through the lens of young people. The Lattice Group also provides an online platform for Gen Y-Fi to articulate the issues within today's workforce and identify changes that employers and the government should implement.

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