Category: Professional

All of a sudden, three months in Mali are coming to a close. In some ways, I’m leaving with my project still in its beginning stages. We are far from adding a new product to the catalog. But at the same time, it is rewarding to know that I was able to drive a project f…

Websites, job descriptions, interviews, and personal testimonials are never enough to help you understand exactly what it will feel like, day-to-day, to live and breathe within an organization. The only way I’ve ever really known if I love a type of work is to give it…

Talking about failure is trendy. Learning from a failure is valuable. Deciding that a project has failed is less glamorous. I haven’t updated on the progress of my work for a while now, mainly because progress was complicated. Some days, the impact seemed really promis…

A normal day for me takes place in two languages, spans multiple cultures, and is in a world unlike anything I knew four months back. But despite all these obvious ways in which I have had to adapt to a new environment, the hardest thing to adjust to has been realizing…