I was born in the Netherlands, and from the age of 2 lived abroad (in Tunisia, Spain, Germany, South Africa). I have almost completed my bachelor’s degree in liberal arts at the University College of Amsterdam, majoring in philosophy and culture, with a minor in law. My academic interests include representation, aesthetics and cultural studies of affect and emotion. Currently, I am working on my thesis devoted to Hannah Arendt's phenomenology of labor and the relation of the surplus of value to affect and emotion.