Though I am a journalist, 
my worldview is deeply rooted in my studies of anthropology and undertakings of ethnographic research.
Relevant history:
- Consultant in Ethnographic Research Methods to the Australian Centre for Social Innovation (2011)
- Adjunct lecturer in Anthropology at Queensborough Community College (2011)
- Instructor in Ethnographic Research Methods at the Brooklyn Brainery (2011)
- Curriculum and Research Assistant Director, EarthRights EcoVillage Institute and the UCLA Institute for African Studies, in Dakar, Senegal (2010)
- M.A. Anthropology, The New School for Social Research, advisor: Janet Roitman (2010)
- Participant in Johannesburg Workshop on Theory and Criticism, hosted by the historian Achille Mbembe, at the University of Witwatersand in Johannesburg (2009)
- Participant in The New School’s Democracy and Diversity Institute, in Cape Town (2009)
- B.A. Anthropology, Minor in Spanish, University of Virginia, advisor: George Mentore (2006)
- Senior college thesis: La Tierra es de Todos: The Struggle for Social Survival in the Forests of the Bio-Bio (about the Mapuche of contemporary southern Chile)
- Field school in ethnographic research methods, Guyana (2004)
You are really an inspiration to all us in Africa and beyond