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May 2025  I took a trip to East Africa last month to get some urgent work done that had to completed in person. Planned on about a week’s no...

AP News photo of USAID food distribution In a previous post, I mentioned being in a location where I felt at times that all I could do was b...

Edit: The rumors didn’t turn out to be true. There was no divisive Super Bowl ad, and I’m super glad. However, what remains true is that Mus...

Despite the supposed waiver availability for “lifesaving” Program in a refugee camp funded by US foreign aid (BPRM) support, very few waive...

Classroom I visited in rural Ethiopia, 2018 We are facing down the apocalypse. Today the administration attempted to cut all assistance (for...

Children in front of a tailor's shop in a refugee camp  Four days after I returned home from the Chicago Marathon, I left for Chad. For ...

I ran the Chicago Marathon yesterday.