Diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, or DEIA, is facing headwinds, at the same time as the topics of localization, decolonization, and dismantling of white saviorism are gaining ground in global...
On November 9, Angela Bruce Raeburn was invited to participate on a panel in NY with the Founder of Medecins du Monde (Doctors of the World), French Diplomat Bernard Kouchner....
In mid-March, Nicky Goren, then president and chief executive of the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, posted an open letter on Medium announcing her resignation. Goren heralded the D.C. foundation’s...
Originally Published in www.vitalstrategies.org/ Amid the global uprisings against racism, many organizations have been reckoning with their own complicity in perpetuating inequities. In the international development sector, this includes evaluating what...
White supremacy culture is alive, in excellent shape, and is the prevailing stance in international aid and development. And it’s more resilient than the patriarchy. Here’s how...
Originally Published in Devex.com Let’s face it: The international humanitarian and development sector has been severely wounded this past year and has remained in crisis mode ever since. A steady drip of...
A few weeks ago I wrote an article about the resurgence of the sexual misconduct allegations against former Oxfam staff in Haiti. Although the story originally surfaced in 2011, it has...
After the resurgence of the Haiti scandal at Oxfam, the international and humanitarian aid community scrambled to respond. A recent Nonprofit Quarterly article reported that hundreds...
I had finally gotten a call for the in-person interview. After passing the phone interview and beating the applicant tracking system, I was finally going to have my chance to break...
Calling out racism — or the racial power dynamics of aid workers in low- and middle-income countries — as a systemic problem of international development has remained a topic that...