by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
I recently spent nine months traveling up mountains and along coasts to investigate why and how young people are choosing to farm for a living in Calabria, a southern region of Italy known for having lots of land but increasingly less people and even fewer jobs. I met...
by Methode Emmanuel Ihirwe | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Lawrence Baganiah. In the early years following Rwanda’s independence in 1962, the job market was more accessible for high school graduates. This was due to the small population of Rwanda, as noted by Trading Economics, and low literacy rates as...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
Last fall, I moved to southern Italy—a big jump for someone who had never left the eastern side of the North American continent. I had graduated in May and was beginning the Fulbright Scholarship to do independent research with a university in Calabria. I moved to the...
by Maria DiGiovanni | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
Like most young people involved in activism, I have too frequently heard the dreaded phrase that reduced my passion to naiveté: “Just wait until you enter the real world.” Back in my early days of advocacy, I told myself I would never allow my hope to fall victim to...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 9, 2025 | Articles
PhotoCredit: Yelena Odintsova. I couldn’t help but scroll back to the image I just passed on Instagram. I was looking at a graphic of a brown sole coming down on, as if wanting to stomp and crush, a person. ‘BEYOND INDIVIDUAL BLAME’, read the graphic, with a...
by Hasheemah Afaneh | Jan 6, 2025 | Articles
Author’s note: The interview has been condensed to fit. I was once a student on a college campus, and I’ve been around people like Perry Dripps, the Sustainability Engagement Program Coordinator at the Penn State Sustainability Institute that worked to empower...
