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They Will Give you their Suffering First, or Things I’m Learning about...
I’m up at 2 am, sweating and fucking with the ties on a mosquito net in the dark. I reek of citronella. I’m wondering if I should have taken malaria pills. I’m having an internal debate with myself....
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Social Entrepreneurship in Africa: I am in this to Win.
Two weeks in Uganda is a crash course in humility. I am an ant, on day 16, crawling on the surface of the world’s most complex continent – a speck of a speck in a history reaching back centuries beyond...
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6 Ways to Be a Better Solo Entrepreneur
Freeman’s is full of taxidermy and a foreign accents on a Wednesday at 8 pm, but it was quiet when I walked in two hours ago. “It’s spicy,” the bartender said when he handed me a taste of his favorite...
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On Windsor Knots, and That Bottle of Wine I Left Behind
The end of a relationship is full of small, mundane questions you forgot to ask. Where did you buy my favorite coffee? How many scoops was it that you used? Those potstickers — where do I find the...
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I’m Opening up @NakateProject’s Supply Chain. Here’s Why:
Florence had already started, when I showed up. I mean that in the sense of the whole of our work – that she had laid the foundation for an accessories company in Uganda, and I created a line and a...
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I Can Have it All, & 8 Other Things I’ve Been Told about Girls Like Me:
“I want to put everything in this place in my great, big mouth.” That’s what my sister said in Downtown Manhattan’s Economy Candy shop last spring. That’s how my heart felt when I chose a life that...
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Jersey, Bushwick, Bed-Study: Year One in New York
Year one in New York is unique as the liver of it. I landed high off the California blues in a corner space in Jersey that belonged to anybody except me. I didn’t know anyone, didn’t feel at home,...
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I Have Options, But There Are Only Two
The evangelical community that raised me has communicated options to me since I wrote about the term, ‘Slut.‘ There are two. Option 1: I acknowledge my faults There is a wire thin line between strong...
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Join me for #birthdaydrinks!
If you have read my recent work on determining a living wage in Uganda, then you know that I am working to launch a manufacturing social enterprise in Uganda. This will be my second social enterprise,...
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“How Will We Play Today?” On Managing Anxiety in Uganda
I would never wake up at 4 PM on a Saturday in New York City. At most, I would have slept until noon. At latest, I would have been home in bed by 3 AM. Last night, at 3 AM, I was climbing on a bar...
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