An Interview with Desmond Tutu
“We can be free only together, safe only together, prosperous only together, and human only together.” View Gwen’s illustrated conversation with anti-apartheid and human rights activist, the late …
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Reflections on Indigenous Peoples’ Day
It was perfect that my last event at the Institute this past June as the Gandhi Institute’s director was the closing celebration for the fourth round of our Youth Healing …
Reflections on Gratitude, Working, and Savoring Life
Three things occupied my mind at the start of February. One: Another semester had just begun and I’d decided back in December to speed things up by taking two classes …
Reflections on Acceptance
Hello all who are reading this! If you are familiar with the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence you know about the Season for Nonviolence, which occurs from January 30th to April …
Playing it Safe Since 1833: How Personality Affects One’s Work
TW: This blog post briefly mentions suicide in paragraph 5. You don’t have to know me long to pick up that I have exactly two personality traits: my passion for …
Investigating Investment: A Systems-Thinking Approach to Giving Tuesday
Here at the Gandhi Institute we recognize that the ‘how’ of our work is as important as the ‘what’. This allows us to be completely transparent about all aspects of …
Gratitude without Consumption: An Invitation to Participate in Buy-Nothing Day this Friday
Over the last nine (million) months since we’ve been living in this pandemic, I’ve seen a lot of advertising attempting to tap into our basic goodness and drive to help …
Nonviolence Cannot be Preached
“Nonviolence cannot be preached. It has to be practiced.” -Gandhi, from “Nonviolence in Peace and War” I’m reading Resmaa Menakem’s remarkable book, “My Grandmother’s Hands.” I’m reading the section about …
In Between: A Personal Reflection on Belonging and Biracial Identity
I was born in Austria to an Austrian mother of Czech Republican descent and a Father who was born in Punjab, India. My parents got divorced when I was a …
Caring for Those Who Have Died
During this time of the pandemic when the fear of death and increased likelihood of loss is on our minds, I have been thinking of how to extend care to …