Purpose Gets Personal with Ori Sosnik

Our staff represents a broad range of backgrounds and experiences. We are activists and entrepreneurs, political organizers and master storytellers, geeks and creatives—but mostly we’re just super cool people. Want to know more? We grabbed our new Senior Data Strategist, Ori, to get down to the serious stuff.

1. If you could have coffee with anyone dead or alive who would it be?
Miguel De Cervantes

2. What did you want to be when you grew up?
An inventor and a politician.

3. What’s your go-to lunch spot in the Flatiron district?
Either Taim or Indikitch.

4. What was the last artist you listened to?
Pierre Laurent Aimard playing Bach.

5. What historical social movement or rally inspires you most?
The Civil Rights movement and the American Constitutional Convention.

6. Where did you grow up?
Fresno and Tel Aviv

7. One thing about you that people probably wouldn’t guess?
I need a lot of alone time to be my happiest self.

8. What is the next book we should read?
Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson

9. If you weren’t at Purpose, what would you be doing? 
At the moment, traveling.

10. What’s your mantra when you’re overwhelmed or discouraged? 
Know your strengths, work on your weaknesses.

11. What are you favorite hobbies? 
I spend my time playing piano, writing, and learning about primate behavior. 

12. What was your coolest volunteering experience? 
The time I passed out condoms on the subway. 

13. What is your go-to site when you need a break? 
YouTube!