I'm a people person. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, I'm an ENFP (extroverted, intuitive, feeling, perceiving). My top...

About five years ago I left a successful corporate career to make the world a better place. Some people thought I was crazy. Others were...

Whenever I think of loneliness, the Five Bears in the Bed song from Sesame Street starts to play in my head. It's a perfect parable of...

There's this thing called the Underdog Effect. It's all this psychology around why we have a cultural fondness for underdogs. It points...

I was in the mountains of Haiti, working with a team of doctors and health care providers to host a clinic for the people in the area....

As I'm typing, I can feel the fire rising from deep within me. I feel such rage, disappointment and vulnerability with crap like this....

Today I leave Greece and all the beautiful people I've come to love deeply. But unlike most goodbyes, where people may hug and kiss and...

"You have to understand, no one puts their children in a boat unless the water is safer than the land." Somali-British poet Warsan Shire....

It has been an interesting and surprising few days on Lesbos. This little island is a refugee epicenter, and the impact can be felt in...

There's this song that has turned into my mantra: North by Sleeping at Last. For me, this song is like a prayer, a hope, for a life lived...

I have been adopted by a refugee family from Afghanistan. The entire day, these three little peanuts followed me around, holding my...

Joy. That's what I see when I look at him. Kind eyes that show the struggle of a boy who just wants to be loved, but doesn't know if...

I've always loved to cook, and was lucky to have a mom that let me experiment in the kitchen as a kid (and a dad that would eat...