Dear Ones,

In a departure from my last Huffington Post piece, which dealt with teen suicide in sleepy Bloomington, my newest one deals with the incredible resilience and forward momentum I encountered in the young female Congolese refugees who constitute the Survival Girls, a theater group I mobilized this summer in a slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

There’s a lot of thinking to be done about youth empowerment today and the ways it affects government, social media, and development work–and how those things in turn also shape youth empowerment just as much as they are shaped by it. I figured I’d add my two cents, and I hope you enjoy. I haven’t immediately shared the majority of my Kenya manuscript because there was so much to digest, but this is the beginning of what-all I have to say about the Nairobi summer!

Yours,
Ming