Amy Eldon

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GLOBAL DEGREE “There will exist one degree of separation between the most remote village and the tallest skyscraper of industry — a Global Degree.” Global Degree is the leading journal studying the impact of globalization and the relationship between business, geography, demography and global economics. Each issue of Global Degree offers a timely, open and […]

Miguel Lasala

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As far as how I found Dan Eldon, I must have just picked the book up at a bookstore. The book just wanted to be picked up. I can remember being floored by his story and it was 98 and i was 22, and I can remember thinking that I was spinning my wheels and […]

Jessica Mayberry

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Don’t Speak the language, Don’t Know the Country: An American-for-Hire in India. by Jessica Mayberry Jessica Mayberry has worked as an associate producer in news and documentaries since graduating from college in 1999. She’s begun a nine month job with an Indian NGO making documentaries about the organization’s work. Discovering what skills she could bring […]

Anne Craig

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From the journals of Anne Craig Iowa City, Iowa

Kat Fowler

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BUZZ the faces of change and the mobility of a small buzzzzzzz off in the distance heard but not seen we promise the roots of an everchanging idea rooted and based around something heard but not seen we promise no proof. no will. no change determines the buzzzzzzz of something far off heard but not […]

Bret Beyer

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Lana Wong

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From the Epilogue of Shootback By Lana Wong Every time it rains in Nairobi, especially during the rainy season when the sky unleashes enough water for a small sea, I think of my friends in the slums around the edge of town. Trying to avoid the litter, sewage and shards of glass scattered across the […]

D. Simon Jackson

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Saving the Spirit Bear: A Significant Endeavor D. Simon Jackson It was in the days following one of the most horrific terrorist attacks in the history of humankind, September 11th 2001, that I realized the gift of life is, in fact, life – all life. Despite the pain and suffering humankind inflicts on one another […]

Mike Post

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Under a Kenyan Sky – Mike Post “Why in the world would you do that?” I let that question hang in the air for a moment and waited for the one that always came next: “Aren’t you afraid you’ll catch a disease or get kidnapped by guerillas?” I was asked these questions almost every day […]

David Williams

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TRUTH, FAIRNESS and HEROISM Lessons from Safari as a Way of Life in Bosnia by David Williams We have never had the truth…most of the time in our world, truth is just opinion… It’s different here, dangerous. Sometimes law is on the side of power not truth. Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost When people tell me […]