by Sean | Mar 21, 2016 | Community, Fulbright, Sri Lanka
After you give blood in Sweden they’ll send you a text message when it is used to save someone’s life. New Story Charity will trace every dollar you donate and show you the house you helped to build. This direct accountability from action to impact makes a...
by Sean | Feb 26, 2016 | Government, Marketing, Propaganda, Sri Lanka, Storytelling
Every genocide begins with marketing. Before a government can begin the extermination of a group of people, they have to get buy in from the masses. They have to convince soldiers that by pulling the trigger they are improving the world. Every genocide of the last...
by Sean | Jul 14, 2014 | Sri Lanka, Travel
This article was originally posted on LatLong. The sun was slowly climbing the early morning sky as I roared down the A29 on the back of a motorcycle. The morning was hot and we had been on the road for about three hours. The roads were in a state of disrepair after...
by Sean | Jul 14, 2013 | Business, Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Travel
I received a lot of questions about the Fulbright when I decided to take the grant, many friends and family wanted to know what this would do for me, how would it help you I couldn’t answer those questions when I took the grant, but after months of living in Sri...
by Sean | Jun 29, 2013 | Education, Fulbright, Sri Lanka, Teaching English, Trinco Jesuit Academy
“We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves…” -Seth Godin “Thank goodness I never went to school. It would have rubbed off some of the originality” -Beatrix Potter These quotes greeted my business...
by Sean | Jun 29, 2013 | Fulbright, Government, Politics, Sri Lanka
For several months now I have been working with the Tsunami Animal-People Alliance to try and coordinate a dog vaccination and sterilization clinic in Trincomalee. I first got in contact with the NGO after a fellow Fulbrighter told me about the work they were doing...