U.S. Embassy Public Diplomacy Grant is Awarded to Women of Impact!
Women of Impact (you) will be hosted by the U.S. Consulate General at her Residence in New Zealand, November 3.
Ernan Roman on Being American
America is not a zero-sum game. My gain is not your loss. Your loss is actually my loss.
New Program impactmania and UC Santa Barbara – Human Mind and Migration
impactmania Launched a New Program with the Neuroscience Research Institute, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, and the Department of Religious Studies at University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). The impactmania program Human Mind and Migration consists of an interdisciplinary internship program [...]
Regan Williams: Show Some Respect
The biggest disservice we do to young people is to say that they are not enough right now. “You will be after you get this degree or this accomplishment.” We'll always have more to learn, but we are enough right now.
Courtney Applewhite: How Business impacted our Death Practices
Almost every tradition has afterlife beliefs because they like to imagine that “you” go on, whether it's your soul or your consciousness. There's a whole theory that religion exists because we're so concerned about dying that we created religion to assuage our death anxiety.
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas: The Un-Freedom of Poverty or the Un-Freedom of Servitude
In these orientations, the domestic migrants are told that they will likely not get a day off; they will not have an access to Internet or a cellular phone. They are told that they will be over-worked and isolated. They're told that they're probably going to get raped. That there will be moments when they want to jump off a balcony and kill themselves.
Hannah Jongsma: Is Mental Health of Minorities Related to How They Are Viewed by Others?
What we have settled on is that there seems to be two things: traumatic migration experience; refugees have higher risk of disorder than economic migrants. Second, the pre- and post-migratory social context, for example, people's loss of social status—when people go from a good job to being a cleaner after migration.