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The imperative of idealism

Hack America

Field Notes from the Road

Waking up America

Reflections from the BLK SHP Bus Tour

One Country. Two Worlds. One Idea.

Lately, I’ve felt increasingly conflicted. I’ve spent the past ten-plus years in the San Francisco…

Hospitable Strangers

Garance Choko and Christopher Chavez

Mobile, Selma, Montgomery: Part I

Two things that — not being an international rockstar — I had no idea to expect on a cross-country bus trip: (1) your bus driver is hugely important to your overall experience; (2) a steady state of exhaustion is really the best you can ask for as you power through from…

Can We Become a Community of Innovation or How Painful is Change

What is a community? How does it identify itself? What happens when change happens in community? Is “growth” (or change) necessarily a positive thing to all those experiencing it in a community?

Two Sundays

Sunday, May 3

From 2005–2009, I walked, bused, and drove up North Charles Street more times than I can remember: past the shiny hotels of the Inner Harbor, celebratory dinners at The Helmand, liquid-fueled dance nights at Red Maple, last minute scrambles to Penn Station for a ride…

You Were Born to Create

“In order to become unchained , you must accept the fact that you exist to create. When you engage in this idea, you express your unique passion” — Erik Wahl

The world around you is human made. The paper or screen you are reading these words on, the ink on the…