Seeing Poverty As A Business Isn’t Necessarily A Bad Thing
“’Poverty is a business,’” Patricia Wolff, founder of Meds & Food for Kids was quoted as saying in a 2010 New York Times article about a nutritional, peanut-based paste that has transformed the...
View ArticleFLAWD Fights Bullying By Empowering Kids To Love All Of Themselves, Even...
As we approach a new school year, it’s also time to talk about one of the not so exciting parts of school – bullying. I think that just about anyone can, if they dig deep enough through their...
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Help a Community By Investing in a Community
In The Problem with Little White Girls…, I posed a problem. Millions of mostly unskilled men and women were traveling to developing countries with one mission in mind – to change the world, which isn’t...
View ArticleThe Hidden Math in Your (Almost) Donations
You learn a lot about people when you ask them for money. Whether you’re selling a product, raising money for a cause, or just need a boost, the way that they react to your request says a lot about how...
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What are you afraid of?
Today’s piece is an article I’ve been working on for the last month for The Eye – the magazine of The Spectator, Columbia’s student-run newspaper. The story addresses the role of safe spaces in the...
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The Fish with the Earring: Interloping on a Vodou Ceremony in Haiti
To call the water muddy is to completely misrepresent the black sludge speckled with crumbled off-brand Ritz crackers and shimmering with a slick topcoat of oil, holographic rainbows dancing across the...
View ArticleFeel the Bern for Black Voices
My Spanish class started a few minutes late yesterday. A student brought up Beyonce’s Black Panther homage at the Super Bowl and it lit a fire in the classroom. I can’t say that we all agreed, but...
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The Voluntourist Dilemma
I am a big believer in the power of personal stories to convey emotion and kickstart a conversation, but lately I’ve been feeling frustrated that important conversations are stopping there at the...
View ArticleOrphanage Volunteering’s Shocking Link to Child Abuse
I never thought that playing catch with a kid could be a bad thing, or that goofing off could contribute to long-term psychological damage. Even now, as I write it, it all seems a little absurd. Is it...
View ArticleWhen it Comes to Disaster Relief, Will You be an Asset or a Liability? It’s...
Your plan for helping those hurt by Hurricane Matthew might actually cause more harm than good, so think twice before booking a flight. We’ve all seen the photos. Photos of towns flattened, roads...
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