A few friends of mine from Emory Med School and I have had dreams of opening a coffee/jazz cafe, a sort of modern bohemian gathering place. Perhaps this article should serve as a warning. . .
Bitter Brew - I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life. By Michael Idov
Indulge me for a moment, but the article below is about a man, Bruce Feiler, who attended my small high school in Savannah. He brings an interesting perspective to some ecletic issues and reinforces that perhaps one of the best ways to get started on a global career is to be born in the Deep South.
But How Do You Get It Home? - New York Times
A nice example of Coke's reach. Photo taken February 2005. 
As many of you already know, I will be in Uganda for several months in early 2006 (the major impetus for starting this blog in the first place). I will be working with two insitutions, UCSF and Johns Hopkins, on a couple different projects which I will go into at more length later. Uganda is an interesting country for many reasons, one of these being the dynamic, usually relatively harmonious, occasionally problematic relationships it has with multilateral organizations and NGOs.
Hi Everyone! After finishing my 3000 mile x-country trip all the way back to Savannah and spending the holidays with the folks, I have returned to Atlanta, home of CNN, the CDC, and Coca-Cola and my alma mater, Emory.
I've been enjoying catching up with Justin Ortiz, current EIS officer at the CDC in the influenza branch and a former resident with me at UCSF. But, to backtrack a little, several interesting things happened to me before I left San Francisco that I was hoping to chat about. First, . . .
Via Craigslist, I had a chance encounter with an interesting person who happened to buy some of my furniture. Her name is Jennifer Anastasoff and she is the CEO of Building Blocks International.
Below is the introduction from their web page. Check it out. I personally really like the merging of traditionally different work cultures and the bringing of some of the business/management skills of the for profit sector into the NGO/non-profit world.
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Building Blocks International: Building Global Leaders through Public Service
BBI is an international nonprofit that is working with corporations to develop what Business Week calls a corporate "Peace Corps" and what we call corporate service fellowships. During a corporate service fellowship, employees spend four weeks to a year (full-time) applying their management skills within community-based organizations around the world.
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