The Recommender: Kim Last, Handy With A Blow Torch

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Name: Kim Last
Role at Fast Company: Senior editor for events. I handle the editorial curation and development for Fast Company's live events.
Twitter: @kimlast
Titillating Fact: I took part-time classes in jewelry design at Fashion Institute of Technology for a number of years. I came from a family in the jewelry business and was fascinated as a child about how pieces were fabricated. It's not as glamorous as you think—the FIT classrooms resemble a factory and my first thought when I started was "WHAT am I doing here?!" The instructors had you sign a waiver for all of these safety rules. It was pretty intimidating. I'll never forget my first day holding an enormous soldering torch on my first piece… I thought I was going to burn the entire school down. Needless to say I didn't and I'm pretty handy with a blow torch now. And I'm about eight credits shy of a second bachelor's degree.

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