I’m not going to lie. The prospect of giving a TEDx Talk scared the shit out of me.

Thirty years ago, Julie Winokur & Ed Kashi documented their first story together in Cairo’s City of the Dead.

While I experience the literal heights of mobility, my students are confined to an arid, desolate corner of northwest Kenya without paved roads or running water.

This is our antidote to the hysteria driving most media coverage and warping our sense of who we actually are as a nation.