Everyone, it seems, has discovered artificial intelligence. Or at least everyone has discovered that saying “AI” is now a requirement for staying relevant in the conversation. I find myself using…
At 1:03 AM EST last Thursday morning, in the middle of NAFSA, SecondContact.app went live on the App Store. I had wished it had happened a couple of weeks earlier.…
By the time this reaches you, the NAFSA Annual Conference will be drawing to a close. The booths will begin their slow dismantling. The banners will come down. The last…
In a few days, thousands of us who work in international education will make our way to NAFSA, the largest annual gathering of our field. Flights will land. Hotel lobbies…
Dear graduates, And by graduates, I do not only mean those walking across a stage this month in caps and gowns. I mean every student standing at the edge of…
I flew back to the United States from India last night and was reminded, yet again, that some of us spend our lives returning to places that both know us…
I have been traveling across India, visiting high schools and speaking with students about their future readiness. Standing in rooms full of young people, I have been trying to help…
The world is addicted to visible conflict. Missiles, borders, retaliation, brinkmanship, the theater of escalation. These are the things that dominate headlines because they are dramatic, legible, and easy to narrate.…
I watched Artemis II with the kind of awe that makes you briefly forget your age. For a few minutes, I was no longer a grownup buried in deadlines, flights,…
“Paper or plastic?” It is one of those phrases we hear so often that it barely registers anymore. It belongs to the script of modern life, along with “credit or debit,”…
It took me longer than it should have to get to the University of Mississippi. Forty-eight states came and went before it. Mississippi stayed somewhere on the list, not avoided, just…
Night had already settled over the court of Hastinapur when the dice were brought forward. The hall was full. Princes, elders, warriors, and courtiers gathered beneath the glow of torchlight,…
There were only four students in the room, and none of them were allowed to speak English. The rule seemed simple enough until the first sentence collapsed halfway through. It was a…
SNAP! Arms lift. Phones tilt toward skylines, temples, street corners. A moment is captured before it has even been fully experienced. Proof we were there. You don’t actually hear the sound anymore. Most…
Each year, I joke that I’m celebrating the anniversary of my 25th birthday. On Tuesday, it was the 28th anniversary — and I chose to mark it on the Great Wall…