I’m taking a break from my vacation in the stunning mountains of Montana to talk to a class at Carnegie Mellon being taught by my awesome major advisor, Jay Aronson. I’ll be updating this post with references to the links I bring up in the conversation, so class participants and refer back to it. Any […]
Continue reading →I write a lot for work. Pretty much everything on this page since August 2012, I wrote. What I didn’t write, I edited or found content for or helped reformat. My name is on 2 pieces of writing my organization has sent out–an invitation to a basketball game and an invitation to Facebook for people […]
Continue reading →I had the great fun of organizing a panel on one of my favorite bills this federal legislation session, H.R. 3344. You can learn a lot watching the video below, or you can read the infographic I designed, peruse the stories I curated, or sign the petition I wrote. Seriously, I like this bill. Also, […]
Continue reading →I wrote about this before, 4 years ago when I was a Fellow at the nonprofit where I now work. There’s an expectation that people who work on ending human rights abuses will get a little messed up in the process. Some of this shows up in gallows-humor, some in intense reactions to depictions of […]
Continue reading →Today, at noon, I’m giving a presentation to a group of Fellows on public speaking. I’ll talk a lot tomorrow about tactics. About writing out every word of a speech by hand your first few times to make sure the words live in your head. About standing on one foot and wiggling before you go on […]
Continue reading →I work at an organization that combats human trafficking, and one of the ways we do that is by serving the survivors of that horror. There are amazing social workers who help our clients find ESL classes, vocational training, housing, jobs, benefits, healthcare, legal help, pretty much everything a person needs to rebuild her (and […]
Continue reading →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 […]
Continue reading →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. […]
Continue reading →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 of […]
Continue reading →I spent a lot of last week reading about the foster care system (400,000 U.S. minors are involved in it each year (pdf)) and I’m going to be talking about child welfare reform for a few months. Following up on 6 months working on Safe Harbor laws which enable the criminal justice system to direct child […]
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