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I’m a very different person than I was a year ago. Well, that’s a grotesque understatement. Every time I reflect on this fellowship and how it has changed me, the first coherent thought that comes to mind is that I have changed so much in the span of nine months. When I first heard about … Continue reading »

From the very beginning of this fellowship, I knew I would be challenged to new heights. I knew that I would gain new insights into the world. I knew I would come out of this experience a different person. But to what degree? That I didn’t know. I’ve always been aware of poverty as it … Continue reading »

The past month in a country foreign to me has been filled with many, many different surprises that I would’ve never imagined. As I was leaving California, I was absolutely eager to travel to a different country for the first time in my adult life and to start conducting research with Isabel. Our first surprise … Continue reading »

Being a Bay Area native, I live in a particular bubble of privilege. I am surrounded by the latest and greatest technological advances that the Silicon Valley has to offer. I can easily drive over to the headquarters of various famous companies like Facebook and Google. As a Californian, I experience essentially perfect weather every … Continue reading »