Everywhere I turn, there’s discourse. People are talking, but the conversations aren’t productive. It feels like everyone is competing to feel heard. Rattling off statistics, flexing an impressive vocabulary, and turning what’s supposed to be a conversation about the issue into an exercise in dominance rather than joint collaboration of a shared solution, or mutual understanding. Meanwhile, resentment and frustration continue to mount, progress stalls, and communities-fractured. These days, W...

Everywhere I turn, there’s discourse. People are talking, but the conversations aren’t productive. It feels like everyone is competing to feel heard. Rattling off statistics, flexing an impressive vocabulary, and turning what’s supposed to be a conversation about the issue into an exercise in dominance rather than joint collaboration of a shared solution, or mutual understanding. Meanwhile, resentment and frustration continue to mount, progress stalls, and communities-fractured. These days, W...

8 years ago, I found myself in the midst of an existential crisis. Years of cognitive dissonance and depression had cracked the foundation of a youth built on religious, political, and social conditioning. For the last eight years, I’ve devoted my life to curiosity, reading a myriad of books about being human in the U.S. of A. Topics ranging from theology, anthropology, sociology, and history. When I devoted myself to education and curiosity, I was forced to see the invisible architectures th...

8 years ago, I found myself in the midst of an existential crisis. Years of cognitive dissonance and depression had cracked the foundation of a youth built on religious, political, and social conditioning. For the last eight years, I’ve devoted my life to curiosity, reading a myriad of books about being human in the U.S. of A. Topics ranging from theology, anthropology, sociology, and history. When I devoted myself to education and curiosity, I was forced to see the invisible architectures th...