FeelingElephants

Here's the story behind my blog's title.

I use the power of the internet to take human trafficking offline for my day job, but what I say here is mine, all mine.

8 videos of cuties on Sesame Street (for self-care at work)

I work on human trafficking. It’s a pretty sad subject. One of our traditions at work is to post “daily self care videos” to our chat statuses (this isn’t unique to my organization–we did that in my first internship in Washington D.C.):

Recently there’s been a trend of cute genre actors going on Sesame Street [...]

Category: Human Trafficking, Relationships / 5:24 pm on 8 October 2013 / One comment

Nope, still not cynical

I’ve been in D.C. for 13 months now and by now I thought I’d be cynical. Like the unfortunate seasonal turn to snow and slush that I can smell coming, I expected to stop feeling hopeful for a new world through constant exposure to the process of doing the work of politics.

That hasn’t happened. [...]

Category: Career Thoughts, Human Trafficking, Writing / 10:05 pm on 5 September 2013 / 4 comments

Jordan Geology Project: A prologue

I’m about to start a regular series called the Jordan Geology Project and wanted to explain a bit about why. In February 2013 I had the privilege of being a member of the U.S. State Department’s TechWomen delegation to Jordan, after which I continued on to Lebanon. TechWomen is an initiative of the U.S. Department [...]

Category: Geology, Human Rights, Human Trafficking, Jordan Geology Project, Politics in the Arab World / 9:00 pm on 2 September 2013 / One comment
 
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