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June was full of wonderful changes:  new professional chapters and travel adventures. On the former front, I’ve begun my new role as Director of WaterCredit for Water.org.  What is WaterCredit, you ask?  It’s an innovative initiative that applies microfinance tools — small loans, group-based lending models, etc. — to the water and sanitation (watsan) sector.  WaterCredit [...]

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It’s been far too long since I wrote a proper blogpost.  That’s mostly because I — along with what seems like half the world — tweet rather than blog these days.  You can follow me here.  And my travelogue-library reduxes are still some ways from completion, alas. Last week I was in Boston to attend [...]

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Happy (belated) new year — and then some! Incredible how time has flown by.  African adventures, holidays, Obama administration and more positive changes on the horizon… The best way to track me these days (including all of  my African travelogues, which now seem like a long time ago) is still on my Tweetstream.  However I [...]

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Seulam (Amharic, from Ethiopia) – Hujambo (Kiswahili, from Kenya) — Greetings from East Africa! I’ve been on the road for almost 2 weeks now, yet due to lack of both quality internet access and time have not been able to blog as much as I’d hoped.  It’s been an amazing journey so far, as I’d hoped and [...]

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This past week has been incredible. First BarCamp Africa at the Googleplex, then the inaugural SoCap (social capital) conference in SF. My mind is still spinning with ideas. Amazing and inspiring people, tremendous opportunities, so much to be encouraged and enthused about… I moderated a BarCamp panel on social, cultural, political and development issues in [...]

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