A Safe Place: Empowering Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRC
A Safe Place: Empowering Women Survivors of Sexual Violence in the DRC I created this small, and truly labor of love blog in 2010, as a way to give something back in a year where I ultimately became too busy with full time school and work. So in December of 2010, I made a commitment [...]
Experiencing El Salvador
I am charged with the exciting prospect of picking a culture, studying it and then, while still in California, finding a way to “immerse” myself in an “experience” of what it might be like to be someone from this culture. This is for a class I am taking on further developing my understanding of [...]
Gulf Oil Spill: One Louisian Fishermen’s Experience
There are an estimated six million speckled trout in the Gulf of Mexico, a popular catch for the fishermen of Louisiana. Bill Lake is one of those fishermen. He owns Bayou Guide Service, a commercial fishing charter company that he has operated for 16 years, out of Houma, Louisiana. We speak by phone early one [...]