Is perennialism the answer? — (Disclaimer! I am not formally educated in the disciplines related to this topic. I just think about it a lot and wanted to get those thoughts processed in a concrete way. I don’t represent anything or anyone beyond myself. …

The mysterious case of the missing hand sanitizers — The other day, Anum mentioned a colleague at work had cheekily pointed out the pointlessness of using hand sanitizer, an antibacterial agent, as a defense against coronavirus, a… virus. I thought about it for a second and responded with a confident “no, it’s not just antibacterial, it’s antimicrobial, silly!” (I…

Part I: My Thoughts I’m currently sitting on a rooftop cafe overseeing the beautiful hills of Kigali, with large, shiny, new buildings interspersed through the lush landscape. With my four dollar cappuccino in hand, typing away on my laptop, I may as well be at a coffee shop in DC. …

Last summer I was deployed for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Uganda project and wanted to share an account of some of my time in the field. My past two years working on global health and development in the epicenter of the field — Washington, D.C. — gave me a…

How I found my way through small town America. — i’m so tired of these damn labels small, narrow boxes, scattered in the depths of your mind no wonder they call it narrow-minded you think people can be homogenized? packaged neatly into something you can fit into one of your caskets? may as well be a casket because you are killing…