NEWS & BLOG
Note: This page is organized into three lists of posts: (1) Learning Life News, (2) Learning Life Founder’s Blog, and (3) Selected Profiles of Learning Life People.
Learning Life News
December 30, 2018: What Happened in 2018 & What’s Coming in 2019
December 12, 2018: First Global Storytelling Challenge a Success!
October 24, 2018: Follow-Up Study Compares Family Food Culture in Three Countries
October 22, 2018: Pilot Global Storytelling Challenge Launches
September 20, 2018: Introducing “Cook, Eat & Learn Sessions” (CELS)
August 27, 2018: CDI Is Two Years Old! Here’s Where We Are
July 18, 2018: Today Marks Our 100th CDI Activity
May 10, 2018: Introducing CDI Language Partners
May 2, 2018: Cross-National Food Culture Research Goes Public
April 4, 2018: DC Rich and Poor: A Tale of Two Wards
February 12, 2018: Seeking CDI Youth Mentors
January 22, 2018: Let’s Build a World Affairs Pipeline for Youth in DC
January 8, 2018: Int’l Project Comparing Family Food Cultures Launches
December 27, 2017: Results of our Int’l Community Photo Project Are in!
November 26, 2017: Support Learning Life: Host a Diplomacy Dessert
November 14, 2017: yPIE Interviews Founder Paul Lachelier
November 4, 2017: The Eight Families in Our First International Project
October 4, 2017: Number of e-News Subscribers Surpasses 1,000!
September 13, 2017: New Fundays Get DC Kids Learning about the World
August 15, 2017: International Potlucks for a More Peaceful & Tasty World
June 27, 2017: Seeking Fluent Arabic Volunteers for International Dialogues
June 13, 2017: Watch: Third Citizen Diplomacy Initiative Video!
May 22, 2017: Watch: Second Citizen Diplomacy Initiative Video!
May 15, 2017: Get Notice of DC Live International Virtual Exchange Meetings
May 2, 2017: How Do We Build Peace in a Divided World?
April 14, 2017: New Facebook Group Connects CDI Families Worldwide
March 30, 2017: Watch: First Citizen Diplomacy Initiative Video!
March 12, 2017: Learning Life Holds First Live Middle East Dialogue
February 22, 2017: Anacostia Int’l Inaugural Meal Features Senegalese Feast
December 30, 2016: Learning Life’s 2016 Work, and Plans for 2017
December 19, 2016: Seeking Research Collaborators
October 13, 2016: Two New U.S. Families Join Citizen Diplomacy Initiative
October 7, 2016: About Our Photovoice Project
September 26, 2016: Seeking Metro DC Graduate Students to Research & Lead Int’l Dialogues
September 19, 2016: U.S. Families Connect with a New Family in Senegal
September 7, 2016: U.S.-El Salvador Live Dialogue Leads to Dance
September 5, 2016: Internship: Help Organize Live International Dialogues
August 27, 2016: Our First, Live, International, Family-to-Family Dialogue
May 17, 2016: New Content for Our Globalizing World
February 9, 2016: Seeking International Dialogue Organizers
Learning Life Founder’s Blog
November 26, 2018: Globalization, Inequality & Opportunity
September 14, 2018: Toward Good Health, Local to Global
March 22, 2018: Food and Health in Senegal vs. the USA
December 15, 2017: Democratize Diplomacy! (Part 1)
August 27, 2017: Today is the First Anniversary of CDI!
April 18, 2017: A Neighborhood Approach to International Diplomacy
December 12, 2016: Inspirations for Learning Life’s Citizen Diplomacy Initiative
November 15, 2016: Three Deeper Take-Aways from Trump’s Ascendance
July 28, 2016: What’s Your Position in the World?
June 12, 2016: Learning Life’s F.A.C.T. Approach to Citizen Diplomacy
March 25, 2016: Global Citizens for Our Global Age
November 21, 2015: Toward a Local Learning Infrastructure, Part 2
October 14, 2015: Toward a Local Learning Infrastructure, Part 1
September 7, 2015: Toward Participatory Democracy
July 27, 2015: If You Hear Old, You’ll Walk Old: Building on the Psychology of Priming
April 29, 2015: New Report: Most U.S. Students Fail Civics, History & Geography
March 28, 2015: Information, Knowledge & Inequality in Modern Societies
February 10, 2015: Building a Community-Supporting Form of Advertising
October 29, 2014: Trivia vs. Signia: A New Word for the English Language
May 31, 2014: Education: The Good, the Bad, & What We Can Do
March 30, 2014: Knowledge, or Information?
February 28, 2014: Toward Private Nudges for Public Citizens
July 31, 2013: Humans Are Inertial, Social: Social Science for Incidental Learning
May 12, 2013: Op-Ed: Let Learning Live
April 29, 2013: Asking Bigger, Deeper Questions
March 31, 2013: The Strength of Big Bits
January 25, 2013: Tackling Public Ignorance with Incidental Learning
December 27, 2012: On the Importance of Knowledge
December 20, 2012: Let Learning Live
Selected Profiles of Learning Life People
January 14, 2019: Spotlight: Curtis-Winslow Family
December 4, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Yaxeni Valero
November 12, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Lynnette Kitcher
August 3, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Zainab Mahdi
July 26, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Thalia Navia
July 12, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Marley Henschen
July 5, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Anudeep Alberts
June 29, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Yesica Sorto-Argueta
March 15, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Vanessa Rincon
February 26, 2018: Intern Spotlight: FZ Kassidi
February 12, 2018: Intern Spotlight: Arielle Mobayen
November 20, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Kelly Cruz
October 16, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Sara Edgar
August 18, 2017: Volunteer Spotlight: Melissa Ordoñez
August 4, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Claudia Merlos
July 14, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Temilola Afolabi
April 22, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Jo Moley
February 8, 2017: Intern Spotlight: Erin Birmingham
December 9, 2016: Volunteer Spotlight: Steve Lainez
August 7, 2016: Intern Spotlight: Omar Batterjee
July 6, 2016: Volunteer Spotlight: Britany Gatewood
April 4, 2016: Intern Spotlight: Maria Luevano
March 8, 2016: Intern Spotlight: Carolyn Rider
December 2, 2015: Intern Spotlight: Ian Ball
November 9, 2015: Intern Spotlight: Samantha MacFarlane
July 14, 2015: Intern Spotlight: Fatima Kahn
January 29, 2015: Volunteer Spotlight: Michelle Vergara