{"id":259808,"date":"2024-09-16T14:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T14:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/mi-primer-bitcoin-promotes-two-staff-members-to-leadership-roles\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:11:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:11:18","slug":"mi-primer-bitcoin-promotes-two-staff-members-to-leadership-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/16\/mi-primer-bitcoin-promotes-two-staff-members-to-leadership-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mi Primer Bitcoin Promotes Two Staff Members to Leadership Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of <a href=\"https:\/\/myfirstbitcoin.io\/\">Mi Primer Bitcoin<\/a>\u2019s three-year anniversary, the El Salvador-based organization <a href=\"https:\/\/myfirstbitcoin.io\/my-first-bitcoin-promotes-two-rising-stars\/\">announced<\/a> that it has promoted two of its staff members \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/reynachicas2\">Reyna Chicas<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/quentin_ehr\">Quentin Ehrenmann<\/a> \u2014 to leadership positions.<\/p>\n<p>Chicas, a native Salvadoran who has been with the organization for approximately two years, has quickly ascended through its ranks from teacher to Lead Teacher to a member of the Board of Directors to now the Director of Education. She has shined since the beginning of her time with Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB), when the organization sent her to <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/inside-guatemalas-bitcoin-lake\">Bitcoin Lake<\/a> in Guatemala for six months to teach in the community. During this past year, she\u2019s been a point person for Mi Primer Bitcoin for its communications with El Salvador\u2019s Ministry of Education.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p>                        <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/.image\/c_fit%2Ch_800%2Cw_1200\/MjA5MzI3MzkwNzU5ODU1OTA5\/6028565f-b57d-4abf-8e67-ef4d8fa5c0f4_1920x1210.jpg\" height=\"756\" width=\"1200\"><figcaption>Reyna Chicas speaks at Adoption Bitcoin El Salvador in 2023. Photo credit: Frank Corva<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs a Salvadoran who began this journey as a teacher, I\u2019ve experienced firsthand the power of education to inspire growth and change,\u201d said Chicas in MPB\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this new opportunity as Director of Education, my commitment is stronger than ever to help create more stories of empowerment with MPB, to be a good example for my people, both in my country and beyond, and to show that with passion, effort, and dedication, we can build a better future,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ehrenmann has also been a rising star since joining MPB in 2023 and was recently promoted to General Manager of the organization. For his first project for MPB, he moved to an underdeveloped island off the eastern coast of El Salvador and kickstarted an education-focused circular economy. After that, he moved to the mountains of Berlin, El Salvador to educate within the community there. He was then promoted to Director of Operations, where he helped further MPB\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/myfirstbitcoin.io\/node-education-network\/\">Node Network<\/a> of Independent Educators, which now includes teachers in 27 countries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom working on a special project on an island off El Salvador to joining the leadership team and contributing to the execution of our mission, my journey at Mi Primer Bitcoin has been incredibly rewarding,\u201d said Quentin in MPB\u2019s announcement. \u201cI look forward to helping bring independent Bitcoin education to the next 100,000 students.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>For more on Mi Primer Bitcoin, read our <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/el-salvador-bitcoin-news\/bitcoin-education-can-change-the-world-mi-primer-bitcoin-my-first-bitcoin\"><em>Founders profile<\/em><\/a><em> on the organization\u2019s founder, John Dennehy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/el-salvador-bitcoin-news\/mi-primer-bitcoin-promotes-two-staff-members-to-leadership-roles\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In the wake of Mi Primer Bitcoin\u2019s three-year anniversary, the El Salvador-based organization announced that it has promoted two of its staff members \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":259809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}