Photo Essay: Chile
By Megan Kanipe Take a visual journey through Chile, Santiago and Valparaiso and Castro to beautiful bays and waterfalls.
Where to begin? These are my thoughts, this is what scares me
by Claire L Lanier My father worked for the State Department for 35 years. Before that, he was a history professor, insistent that we learn about the past so that we could better understand the world around us. In the late ’80s and early ’90s, my family lived overseas, primarily in developing countries. We interacted intimately with other cultures, and my brothers and I had friends from all over the world. After I moved back to the US in 1997,…
The Pink Wave
by Rachel Piazza “Up from a past that is rooted in pain, I rise” Alicia Keys spoke the words of Maya Angelou as a sea speckled with freshly knitted pink hats swelled through the streets surrounding the National Mall. “Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise.” Each stanza churned the pink water like a strong gust of wind. Electricity pulsed through cheers and chants. In the moment that…
We Came Late: Thoughts After the NYC Women’s March
by Andrea Crowley-Hughes The night before the New York City Women’s March, I was stowing Lara bars and neatly organized baggies filled with bandages, gauze and butterfly closures into our backpacks. I had read all the pre-march checklists I could fit into a browser window crammed with open tabs. Still, I was too late in learning that Maalox is a more effective treatment for tear gas irritated eyes than Pepto Bismol. My mind has the tendency of jumping to –…
How Blockchain Can Revolutionize Sustainability
by Alexandra Oborina and Elisa Dresen Blockchain technology today is still in its early stages, but it promises a giant potential for many sectors of the economy: Financial Services, Resources, Public Services, Commerce, Consumer Data, and more. Gartner’s 2016 Hype Cycle for emerging technologies identifies blockchain to be at innovation peak with mainstream adoption in five to 10 years. What is blockchain? A blockchain is a ledger of transactions arranged in data batches called blocks. Each block contains many transactions within. Blocks…