Sitting in a conference room in South Korea with eight hundred youth from 110 different countries drafting a statement to our leaders on climate change was both exhilarating and perhaps, entirely futile. Exhilarating in the sense that we were a small part of something bigger, shaping a declaration that would be delivered to ministers and [...]
Halfway up the mountain on the path to Inwangsan, Seoul’s most famous shamanist shrine, I realized I was definitely not in America anymore. Ahead of me was one of the most intricately painted roofs I had ever seen, sheltering a candle and incense-filled space of devotion to a higher power I fail to comprehend. Below [...]
You know that feeling where you look around you and wonder how you got there? My entire summer has been that moment, crystallized and then scattered in a glittering series of new experiences. A few days ago I was inside the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, saying goodbye to amazing people I never would have thought [...]
