Nick Ruiz — Discover the Organisation Flying Refugees to Safety Using Donated Airline Miles

Nick serves as a co-founder at Miles4Migrants, supporting the technology development that powers our mission. Nick also piloted the original idea of using points and miles to reunite families by flying the family of a Pakistani Christian personal friend in Europe. He later shared this idea on with other online reward point enthusiasts on Reddit, where Seth and Nick later sparked the movement. 

Nick is passionate about developing technologies that bridge cultural boundaries and overcome language barriers to improve lives. Outside his work at Miles4Migrants, Nick is a natural language processing research scientist at Interactions, working on virtual assistants for customer care. Nick lives near New Providence, New Jersey with his wife Jennifer and his daughters, Julia and Chiara.

In this episode, we talk about the first rescue mission that sparked the idea of using flight miles to bring thousands more refugees and asylum seekers to safety. Additional topics we cover include:
     - Taking an idea to starting an organisation
     - The challenges that refugees and migrants face
     - Language learning technology, and the social impact of AI

You can find Nick on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickruiz/ or follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/nickruiz. 

To learn more about Miles4Migrants, visit their website https://miles4migrants.org and follow their Instagram https://www.instagram.com/miles4migrants/.

This podcast was produced by Jose Biotto & TKB Podcasts. The featured music is from the song “Turning Over Tables” by The Brilliance. 

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