*Note: I'm not currently accepting freelance gigs--building Purpose Portfolio has me pretty much at capacity :) Thanks for your interest, and feel free to drop me a line if I can help find the right designer for your project. `sj
All in Social Change
What is it, really, that open education offers the educational community that would make it worth the massive outlay of time, talent, resources and--perhaps most significantly--change required to sustain it?
The tools of hard power are force, sanctions, payments and bribes; the tools of soft power institutions, policies, culture and values. Hard power is authoritarian and self-serving. Soft power is neither. And HOPES development is built on soft power.
"Draft a plan to help Zimbabwe if Mugabe were removed from power and your NGO were invited in to help." That was the prompt for my Third World Development class final. No joke.
Talking with my professor after class this afternoon--about conceptual capital and holistic development. Mid-sentance, he sort of cocks his head to the side, squints a little, and says; "you know, SaraJoy, you're a little...different...than most people around here." Made me smile.
Words of wisdom from the first women to hold a cabinet position in India, the first ambassador to the US from independent India and the first female president of the UN general assembly.
The Congo is on fire...again. Rebels and conspiracy and murder and rape. Thousands of refugees and counting. The footage is horrifying, but what got me was hearing the palpable exasperation of the aid workers being interviewed, and realizing that I'm starting to know how they feel. I stood there in the middle of the hallway of the McKay building not sure whether I wanted more to scream or to cry. "Why can't we stop this!?"
Perhaps the question is so vexing because the answer really is, "We could."
Great news! The Escuela Agricola de San Francisco made it to the finals of the BBC World Challenge--a top social innovation competition! Now you get to vote to help them win!
Apparently, the consensus among the “adults” at the school is that I am a revolutionary, inciting the proletariat to various acts of sedition and generally upsetting the delicate balance of their system. Oops.
