Think Tech Hawaii TV: Conversation with Jay
Conversation with Jay on Think Tech Hawaii TV about my life, the recent earthquake in Nepal and my work.
With Maya (President Obama's sister) and my dear friend Kirsten, who introduced me to Maya, at University of Hawaii.
University of Hawaii: Education, Leadership & Life
Short description of and photos from presentation I made to Professor Maya Soetoro-Ng's Leadership for Social Change class at University of Hawaii. Professor Maya is President Obama's sister.
When The Unimagined Becomes Life
Travel give you opportunities to learn, intimately, about people and places you otherwise wouldn't. It also gives you opportunities to to do things that you had never imagined doing, and in the process you become a person that you might have never imagined being!
Parting Words to a Qatari Student
Parting words to a Qatari student on Facebook following a number of exchanges about Qatar and FIFA, in which he essentially painted the Arabs as victims of racism.
Nepal: No Country for Women
Nepal is a country by men, for men. But it's time to recognize why that is so and to move forward.
The Blinding Effect of Structural Privilege
Social structure propped up, supported and perpetuated by Nepal's very highly patriarchal caste system has given rise to a bureaucractic and political--and other--systems that's characterized by deplorable structural inequality, which many of those responsible aren't able to understand or, if they do, will not acknowledge.
But there is a solution!
In side the kitchen: The fireplace on the other side.
What is Privilege in Nepal?
What does privilege in Nepal look like? Here's an exercise to visually and dramatically show that.
A young boy doing his laundry on the shores of Lake Malawi in Senga Bay, a beach I would visit regularly with my friends when I lived and worked in the country for three years between 2004 and 2007.
MalAria in MalAwi
The recent discovery and development of the vaccine against malaria is a welcome development for sure. It should be great news for the children of Africa. It SHOULD! Is it or will it be?
Shuvatara School: Live Your Dream…For a Meaningful Life
Injustices in Nepal, what I am doing to fight to them, and what children like themselves could do when they grow up to live a meaningful life.