Tag: Poverty

Broken Glass and the Path to a Career in Education

In 2003, while deployed to Iraq for Operation Iraqi Freedom, I went on various convoys and used to see many children in small towns and neighborhoods running around…

Rolling with Difference

The image I chose for my humanities moment is representative of how I have come to understand myself, society and the cities around the world. While many might…

Human Ecology of Health

Walking the cobble-stone streets of a Bolivian village, I witnessed how a new clinic in a medically underserved area hadn’t made much of an impact. I was visiting…