It’s been more than a year since I last posted here, and in that year a lot’s happened. I spent 11 months working as communications specialist in Chennai, India with some of the most dedicated and talented people I’ve ever met. I visited Cairo and the Sinai with my friend and brilliant freelance journalist Laura Beth Kasinof, whose articles on Yemen you’ve probably read over the last few weeks in the New York Times. I spent a week in Bangkok, Thailand working closely with journalists from all over Asia to cover Transparency International’s International Anti-Corruption Conference. And most recently, I had the opportunity to travel to several of Rio de Janeiro’s favelas and document the story of a few people who make their home there.
In the last year, I’ve been fortunate enough to see more of the world than I expected to see in my whole life. I’ve learned a lot and I’ve been forced to unlearn a few things as well. I’ve answered some questions, and even more questions have been raised.
I hope to use this blog as a venue to share this journey with you and engage with these questions as we attempt to wrap our heads around the idea that perhaps “el viaje es el destino.”
The post was written somewhere between New York City, NY and Houston, Texas on the first leg of my trip back to Rio de Janeiro to finish up some work for Favela Firsthand. To learn more about Favela Firsthand, check us out on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/favelafirsthand and follow us on Twitter at @favelafirsthand.
