Ingrid
I met Ingrid in person in April, 2007 when she came to California for her admissions interview at Stanford University.…
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It’s Not Academic Anymore
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I knew I shouldn’t have gone into the room about children long before I stepped inside. It’s the last room…
Half a World Away or: Reconciling the Rage and Learning to Live with the Pain
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It took us 30 hours from the time we departed from Los Angeles to when we arrived in Kigali, Rwanda.…
How blessed are we, that we have the awareness and the capacity to do what we are about to do.
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In just a few hours our small group representing Jewish World Watch leaves for the Eastern Congo. Every day for…
First Post
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By all accounts I shouldn’t be making this trip. My mother keeps tracking me down to tell me that she…
Diana Buckhantz
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I am a public relations consultant and as such I am always the one pitching the story. I am much…
Day 8: Boundless Capacity
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Today we had the most intense experience we have had to date. We went to the Touloum refugee camp to…
Day 8: Today, We Cried
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Man’s inhumanity to man is limited only by the creativity of his cruelty. Today we cried. We have sat with…
Day 7: I’m Convinced
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This was our last day in the Iridimi refugee camp ALREADY. Clearly it is not enough time to develop real…