Bigger than Kony: Livetweeting an Open Discussion
Here’s a link to my storify-ed livetweets from last night’s panel discussion on foreign policy and humanitarian aid efforts in Uganda and the Congo in response to the international media attention...
View ArticleThe Real Experts
This post on behalf of REPSSI originally appeared on A View from the Cave. The first and most challenging exercise of the day when I took a seminar from The OpEd Project required me to fill in the...
View Article5 pulse-checks before clicking ‘publish’ on #globaldev communications
This is a guest post by Sophie Savage, the final in a series of seven blog posts from my International Development Communications students at Georgetown University’s Public Relations and Corporate...
View ArticleWhite supremacy, black liberation, and global development: The conversations...
Below all of the talk of “evidence-based approaches” and “taking interventions to scale,” there is an undercurrent of disquiet. It happens when “local partners’ capacity” is maligned. It happens when...
View ArticleConfessions of a recovering neocolonialist (reprise)
Harare, 2002. The word came. Cash is in the banks. The three colleagues I was standing near at the moment the news came and I quickly jumped in the car. We had to get downtown to Standard Chartered as...
View ArticleWhy I wrote about “smart risks” in philanthropy and why I would frame it...
This coming Saturday on April 15, my first book, co-edited with Tanya Cothran, comes out. It is based on many of the things I’ve written about on how-matters.org over the years – funding for grassroots...
View ArticleServing with Cultural Humility
This guest post by Silvia Austerlic originally appeared on Medium. The question is, how big is your ‘we’? ~Beatrice Bruteau In the midst of the shifts and unfolding world events, it is vital to...
View ArticleLoving the questions VI
Following is the latest set of reflections in my ongoing series on teaching “Storytelling and Communicating for Change” in the University of Vermont Masters of Leadership for Sustainability (MLS)...
View ArticleWhat is your “right role”?
I dropped the coffee beans container on the floor this morning. They went everywhere. As I sat down on the floor to clean them up, I noticed just how dirty the floor was too. I thought, “I have an...
View ArticleMy people
My collage above is entitled, “What is tender III” (2021). On the left of the black and white photo is my great great grandfather John Henry Hulse (b. 1872 d. 1947), with his two siblings, his older...
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