by Inaya Payne-Wilks | Jul 29, 2018
I’ve always been interested in communications, but for what might be considered an atypical reason. What interests me about communications is the role it plays in promoting science (and math and engineering and all my other geeky little interests)! One of the main...
by Dayna Hood | Jul 29, 2018
I still remember where I was when I received the news that I was selected to be a 2018 Karel Fellow. When I learned I would be working with the Afterschool Alliance, I instantly knew that this experience would mark the beginning of a very important chapter in my life,...
by Tarek Deida | Jul 25, 2018
Before coming to Living Cities, I knew very little about cross-sector work. I admit embarrassingly that, in my mind, I cast the two sectors, public and private, as rivals. The private sector was the villain while the public sector was the hero. In the private sector,...
by Adrian Cibran, 2016 Karel Fellow | Oct 7, 2016
When I was growing up, refugees and conflicts happening in far-away places were never really things that I thought much about – nor, needless to say – identified much with. To me, refugees were just foreign people on TV, with vastly different cultures...
by Emmanuel Oyalabu, 2016 Karel Fellow | Sep 26, 2016
If I could use one word to describe this summer experience, it would certainly have to be life- changing. Well that was actually two, but honestly, describing my time in Washington DC this summer as a Karel Fellow in as few words as possible wouldn’t give me...
by Jeanette Alcaraz, 2016 Karel Fellow | Sep 14, 2016
Being a part of the Karel Fellowship was a life changing experience. I had the opportunity to join the GreenLatinos team as the Communications Coordinator. GreenLatinos is a network of environmental and conservation advocates spread across the country which come...
