Dear readers: Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and incredibly kind, intelligent, and valuable thoughts you provided in response to my previous post. I think, however, I may have given off the wrong impression to all of you. I’m not going to stop blogging – not now, and most likely, not…
I ran across this really excellent post the other day, by Lola Adesioye. I love this quote from her: I have spent many column inches and airtime talking about the shoulda, woulda and the couldas of life. And don’t get me wrong – I enjoy it! But I also ask myself how much of a…
This summer, I’ll be writing for Jolkona Foundation. Jolkona is a nonprofit organization aiming to build awareness and mobilize young people to support successful community development projects around the world. Jolkona provides an online platform where it lists the projects it supports, and allows individuals to donate small amounts of money to these high-impact projects….
As you probably can see from this blog, I think about international social and political issues a lot. I’m an economics and political science major, meaning I’m constantly learning about things like the devastating effects of neoliberal reforms in Latin America, or the failure of democracy in Iran, or the failures of international criminal justice….
Due to the ongoing personal branding and social media craze, everyone is trying to brand themselves as a person interested in so-and-so or an expert in a specific area. As a consequence, there are an abundance of blogs out there telling you how to blog, what to blog about, or what not to blog about….
Here is a guest post I recently wrote for my friend Grace’s blog. Grace is featuring guest posts by fellow Gen Yers on the topic “What Inspires You?” in order to find out what makes Gen Y tick. I’m honored that she asked me to write a blog for her theme, and I am posting…