There’s no way to be a US citizen in Tijuana and not deal with it. It’s like a rusty metal serpent that runs along the edge of the city, especially present when you drive out to Playas, the slightly cheesy beach resort part of Tijuana. Kind of like if there…

Here’s what we’ve done in the past two days: Visited two migrant shelters to introduce ourselves and propose leading workshops: One for single men — many deportees from the US, as well as migrants heading north — run by a tiny, scary-tough young woman who talked faster than anyone I’ve…

I am in Tijuana on a Theater Communications Group travel grant to build a relationship with Tijuana Hace Teatro, an amazing, community-engaged theater here run by two incredible Renaissance men of the theater — Jesús Quintero and Ramón Verdugo. …

I am migrating my blog from Tumblr to Medium, where my posts will now live. In the process, I’m re-posting old stuff, now in actual chronological order (oldest to most recent) — not the order I wrote the posts in. …

Blog Posts from Kakuma Refugee Camp, Spring 2016 I am migrating my blog from Tumblr to Medium, where my posts will now live. In the process, I’m re-posting old stuff, now in actual chronological order (oldest to most recent) — not the order I wrote the posts in. …