Animal Farm
Eggs are never on my shopping list in Rwanda. But they’re almost always on the breakfast plate. This is because living far from the cramped confines of a typical New York City apartment, I’ve become a bit of a chicken farmer. It began with the two turkeys, both female, that my co-fellow Oda and I […]
Recruitment Works in Mysterious Ways
I remember I was at a dinner party in New York on New Year’s Eve 2012 when I first heard about Global Health Corps. The dinner was hosted by a friend of mine – let’s call him David – who works in the music industry, and our dinner companions were friends of his at the […]
The Kindness of Strangers
Things will go wrong when you leave your comfort zone and move, let’s say, to Africa. Events will not play out as they do in your favorite documentaries and nonfiction books about strife, development, and inequality. It isn’t always (or even often) smiling mothers with babies, community workshops “in the field”, and picturesque landscapes. There […]