Mi Primer Bitcoin is promoting two staff members to leadership roles

Following the three-year anniversary of Mi Primer Bitcoin, the El Salvador-based organization announced that it has promoted two of its staff members – Reyna Chicas and Quentin Ehrenmann – to leadership positions.

Chicas, a native of Salvador, who has been with the organization for about two years, has quickly risen through its ranks from professor to lead teacher to board member and now director of education. She has shined since her time with Mi Primer Bitcoin (MPB), when the organization sent her to Bitcoin Lake in Guatemala for six months to teach in the community. For the past year, she has been a point of reference for Mi Primer Bitcoin for its communications with the Ministry of Education in El Salvador.

Reyna Chicas speaks at Bitcoin Adoption El Salvador in 2023. Photo credit: Frank Corva

“As a Salvadoran who began this journey as a teacher, I have experienced firsthand the power of education to inspire growth and change,” Chicas said in the MPB announcement.

“With 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 and outside of it, and to show it with passion, effort. , and dedication, we can build a better future,” she added.

Ehrenmann has also been a rising star since joining MPB in 2023 and was recently promoted to the organization’s CEO. For his first project for MPB, he moved to an underdeveloped island off the east coast of El Salvador and launched a circular economy focused on education. After that, he moved to the mountains of Berlin, El Salvador to educate in the community there. He was then promoted to Director of Operations, where he further helped MPB’s Independent Educator Node Network, which now includes teachers from 27 countries.

“From working on a special project on an island off El Salvador to joining the leadership team and helping execute our mission, my journey at Mi Primer Bitcoin has been incredibly rewarding,” Quentin said in the MPB announcement. “I look forward to helping bring independent Bitcoin education to the next 100,000 students.”

For more on Mi Primer Bitcoin, read on Profile of the founders about the organization’s founder, John Dennehy.