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written for American University, School of Public Affairs  The Headscarf Divide: Sarah Fischer Human Rights Class Brings Real Change SPA PhD Grad Wins Volcker Award for Groundbreaking Research on Government Contracting: Amanda Girth Mock Trial Team Rises in the East...

Walking His Talk

Published Nov. 2002 issue of Hope Magazine LISTENING to John Francis recount his fifty-six years, you might not guess that he was silent for seventeen of them. Looking at his dreadlocks and gold earring, you wouldn’t imagine that he once had a desk job with the U.S....

Tribal Survival

Published in the November 2002 issue of Hope magazine A society without structure, the Ogiek have long roved the highland Mau forests of Kenya hunting and gathering honey, needing neither chief nor council. Now they are fighting for their lands and their lives.   And,...

Around the World in 365 Days: A 12-Part Series

Originally published in the 1998 San Francisco Bay Guardian Living Late in Madrid Cairo’s Slow Fast Finding Peace in Israel Jordan: Jewel of Arabia Turkish Hospitality Bulgarian Mysteries Legends of Romania Hungarian Rhapsody China’s New Revolution My Life...

Humboldt Redwoods State Park

Originally published in the San Francisco Bay Guardian The Avenue of the Giants splits the redwood groves so dramatically it seems Moses paved the road with a wave of his cane. I imagine the Sinkyone Indians, who lived here for thousands of years, hunting and...