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Featured Essay: Emily Ruth McElhaney, Guatemala 2011. ~El Conocimiento le Abrirá Todos las Puertas (Knowledge Will Open All Doors) As…

As I arrive in the Guatemalan airport, I am surrounded by new voices in a language that I usually only…

Walking into a room with 32 American youth, I listened to the Costa Rican teacher as he spoke in fluent…

Walking into a room with 32 American youth, I listened to the Costa Rican teacher as he spoke in fluent…

Living with a roof over my head, sustaining nourishment on the table each night, and a great academic school to…

Living with a roof over my head, sustaining nourishment on the table each night, and a great academic school to…

As I stood in front of a group of strangers on an expansive plain in South Africa under a hazy…

As I stood in front of a group of strangers on an expansive plain in South Africa under a hazy…

As I stepped off of the dala dala onto the red dirt of the Himo School’s courtyard, I knew immediately…

The scene is set in Xela, Guatemala, where a teenage boy is sick of shopping even though he has thoroughly…