Communications for Development

This blog discusses how communications are being used for community and economic development in the Global South.   This could be everything from interpersonal communication to utilizing new technologies.

I am interested in exploring:

• communication and social entrepreneurship
• marketing in developing country contexts
• communication tools for civic engagement
• how young people use ICT
• bloggers from Global South
• efforts bridging the digital divide
• social networking for change
• international and cross cultural communication
• communication strategies in vulnerable communities such as slums, refugee camps

and more…

I recently graduated with a degree in Strategic Communications from Columbia University and am working for an NGO at the United Nations in New York.

These are some of the articles I have written:

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Advocacy: the Role of the Church Journal of Lutheran Ethics: February 1, 2009

Crossing boundaries, making commitments at AIDS 2008 Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance: August 2008.

AIDS ministries cross borders as pastors work with those most at risk Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance: August 2008.

Be my fair-trade certified valentine Café: February 1, 2008

Blogging from Bali : the youth caucus at the climate change summit Wiretap / Alternet: December 18, 2008.

Hometown Baghdad: Living in a War Zone Wiretap / Alternet: April 2007

Called to be Bold, three women making a difference Café:  March 2007.

New Treaty Protecting Rights of Persons with Disabilities Finalized at the UN UNA USA e-news: Sept. 1 2007.

Balancing compliance with compassion; With the Patriot Act & related legislation, aspects of global mission and ministry with immigrants have changed The Lutheran: June 2006.

Book Review: Women and Development at the UN, by Devaki Jain UNA USA e-news: April 2006.

Youth at the International AIDS Conference MTV Staying Alive, and content for International AIDS Society: August 2006.

Youth are building presence inside WTO Wiretap/ Alternet: January 2006.

Women Braving Peace: an interview with Malalay Joya about Afghanistan Café: November 2004.

We Have to Be the Change Wiretap/ Alternet: October 2003.

U.N. Pact sinks on violence against women Women’s E-News: June 2004.

Selling Ourselves Short: Individual versus collective power of young women in the United States media United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Women & the Media: 2002.