• Relaunching the International Development Careers List

    A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew that no one would be shut out for cost, and I updated it weekly. Sometimes more. I stopped running it… Read More »

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  • Where I’ve been

    Observant readers will have noticed I have not updated this blog since February. I have every intention of starting again soon. Really soon. In the meantime, I’ve started writing in other places. I am now writing regularly for UN Dispatch on global health issues – see me eviscerate Russian HIV policy right over here. I will… Read More »

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  • Globalization and its discontents

    A friend of mine in Tajikistan used to consistently buy prepackaged foods for her children. Anything specifically marketed to kids caught her attention. She’d buy it – all of it, and feed it to them, even when it was more expensive than other options. So, functionally, she was raising her kids on a diet of… Read More »

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  • World Humanitarian Day

    We are at a time of change and fear for the human race and all life on our planet. Climate change, globalization and its reversal, losses of biodiversity and the depletion of fossil fuels is making this world a very different place than it was even thirty years ago. We don’t know what our future… Read More »

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  • Language, Power, and Global Health: the privilege of speaking English

      My first couple of overseas jobs were pretty much just being the native English speaker on staff. Right after undergrad, I was an intern with the American University in Cairo. I drafted or edited every piece of writing that came out of our office. Later on, after my master’s degree, I was an intern… Read More »

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Relaunching the International Development Careers List

A few years back, I wrote a newsletter and I loved it. It was dedicated entirely to helping people find and keep jobs in the international development sector. It was priced affordably so I knew that no one would be shut out for cost, and I updated it weekly. Sometimes more. I stopped running it… Read More »

How to sign up for the careers list

A number of email subscribers let me know they can’t see the links in new posts. So, for you email folks: sign up for the newsletter at https://www.patreon.com/IDCL Sorry for the extra email!

I’m so sorry!

I’m just putting this up here to apologize to anyone who still gets email notifications. One of the old user accounts got hacked and posted a bunch of garbage. I’ve deleted all the spam, and the account. I really apologize. For those of you still on the email update list – I don’t blog at… Read More »

The UN’s Shame and Haiti’s Suffering

It’s well known at this point that the United Nations brought cholera to Haiti. The worst cholera outbreak in recent global health records, in a country that hadn’t seen cholera in its recorded history. 9700 people died. The UN then spent six years attempting to avoid admitting to its role in the transmission. Finally, molecular… Read More »

New Posts at This World Needs Brave

  I’m not longer updating Blood & Milk, but you may like my writing on international development over at This World Needs Brave. This week I’ve written about climate change jargon, and how to help after Hurricane Matthew. I also have a post coming up later today about Transparency and who it’s really for which… Read More »

new post at This World Needs Brave

Blood and Milk readers, you might like my most recent post at This World Needs Brave, in which I go for a bit about poverty and terrorism.

Facing change

I love this blog and I always will; it’s some of my best work. For a long time I thought I’d start writing here again. I actually reorganized my whole life to give myself time to write. I shifted from full time work to independent consulting and coaching so I wouldn’t have to worry about employer… Read More »

Career Question: What do I study in undergrad?

Dear Alanna: I would really like to go to University next year but am still unable to decide what to study.  All i know is that i am interested in social problems such as poverty, poor education and inequality to name a few.  I am not sure what degree would suit me or give me… Read More »

Where I’ve been

Observant readers will have noticed I have not updated this blog since February. I have every intention of starting again soon. Really soon. In the meantime, I’ve started writing in other places. I am now writing regularly for UN Dispatch on global health issues – see me eviscerate Russian HIV policy right over here. I will… Read More »

Globalization and its discontents

A friend of mine in Tajikistan used to consistently buy prepackaged foods for her children. Anything specifically marketed to kids caught her attention. She’d buy it – all of it, and feed it to them, even when it was more expensive than other options. So, functionally, she was raising her kids on a diet of… Read More »