Tag / Siegman
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Catch me in Kathmandu: Refugee Reflection
As this election season has come to a close, there has been a great deal of talk about immigrants and refugees. This semester I have had the opportunity to immerse myself in the Tibetan refugee community. I have spent a total of seven weeks living with two different Tibetan families, one in Kathmandu and one…
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Catch me in Kathmandu: My Excursion to Ladakh, India
The program I am participating in is fortunate enough that we go on both a major and minor excursion. For our major excursion we went to Ladakh, a part of the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir in northern India, which borders Chinese-occupied Tibet. We went to Ladakh because it is known for being as…
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Fact, Fiction, and the Partisan Divide
As I scroll through my Facebook feed, I see a sponsored article from Everytown for Gun Safety, a non-profit organization. Then, I see a New York Times article about gun violence in America that my friends have shared. When I “Google” the issue of gun violence, I usually get my facts from organizations like the…
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Millenials, Social Media, and Social Justice
Coming of age during a time of rapid and dramatic technological advances, millennials make up a unique generation. They regularly use social media—88 percent report getting their news from Facebook—and are savvy users of the Internet, one of the most important and powerful tools of their time. Checking their phones an average of 43 times…
