There is an old saying: “Lead, Follow or Get out of the Way”. I first heard this on Idiocracy, a hilarious social commentary of a movie, and it has really stuck with me. In this day and age when youth leadership is a phase thrown around a lot, it really got me thinking about what…
I’m going to break the news: I now work in the corporate world. I guess with all the posts I’ve written on my blog, it is understandable for one to assume I would look for a job in the non-profit sector after graduation and go “save the world”. Look, this is where it gets tricky….
Everything begins in the education of the mind. Improve the mind, and that person will improve other people’s minds. Good causes will arise, hope will exist and change will come. Most minds are already powerful, but fear stops that power from unleashing. Remove fear and things will happen. The thing about fearless people is that…
The last time I saw my grandmother she didn’t know who I was. She kept staring and me and my mom, and she was thinking so hard, it was as if I could see gears turning in her head. But, each time she tried, the gears would stop, her memory would fail her. There may…
If I could advocate for one cause, it would be clean and portable water solutions. For the past year, I’ve been wrestling with the notion of getting those around me to care about a social issue, any social issue. Over coffee dates, workshops, team meetings the night before a final exam, I’ve met and re-met…
When people asked me why I decided to join the Peace Corps, I always have a difficult time constructing a good answer. Truth be told, I didn’t join the Peace Corps to change the world. I joined because I wanted to continue living abroad but couldn’t decide where to begin finding a job. I liked…
Being a child of the enigmatic XYCusp or MTV Generation, I grew up with a fondness for all things 80′s sitcom. Though I am a pale pasty white Irish girl from Maine, one of my favorites was A Different World. Seriously, to this day if Dwayne Wayne asked me to run off with him and…
When Akhila asked me to write about a social cause I was passionate about I was eager to join in. I consider myself a philanthropist, but I often spread myself thin. I carry the weight of the world on my shoulders and am sometimes (too) empathetic to the point where it hurts every piece of…
I have a dream book. Not the kind where you put your sleepy, bleary-eyed memories of the night before under shut-eye, but the kind where you sprint to write down all the excitement in your chest before it escapes you forever. The kind where you write down how, exactly, you plan to change the world….
Gen Y sometimes gets a bad rap. We’ve all heard the stereotypes by now — we’re lazy, we’re spoiled, we’re arrogant, we’re not willing to pay our dues, and we want to do work that we truly love. We want work-life balance, we don’t want to settle, and most of all – we’re entitled. I’ll…