A reflection on a challenging year of building healthcare systems in Nepal. — One of the most deeply-held values at Possible is “embracing challenge with grit.” We expect tremendous degrees of adversity and ask each other to use grit to get remarkable results anyway. That is already a difficult value to live up to in a normal year. But 2015 was far from…

This piece is dedicated to someone close to me I’m looking for today in Kathmandu. I struggle to title this piece as I hunker over my laptop in the tight seats of this tiny Yeti airlines night flight to Kathmandu. I struggle because I’ve tried over a hundred times, and…

Social entrepreneurship fuels impactful change by identifying and rectifying problems through persistent innovation. For Possible, the nonprofit health care company I am fortunate to lead with my colleague Duncan Maru, this means redesigning a health care system that solves for some of the world’s poorest people. The health of people…

A year before #GivingTuesday was launched in 2012 as an antidote to the consumerism of the post-Thanksgiving season, I met Peter Singer for noodles at a humble Chinese restaurant in Manhattan. I pursued a conversation with Peter because his moral philosophy inspired my ongoing imperfect pursuit to become a vegetarian…