Do we need a perfect framework? Where does a poor one help?
Guest Post by Noah Brod, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 One of the takeaways from the past weekend for me has been the usefulness of even ad-hoc, informal frameworks. Our class ended up...
View ArticleLearning about Community Social Change through the work of the AASD
Guest Post by Kate DiMercurio, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Over the course of the semester, I worked with a group to write a case study of the Andean Alliance’s work with the Wiñay...
View ArticleWhat does “community” mean anyway?
Guest Post by Benedicte Gyllensten (Team Peru Summer 2012), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 I spent two months as a part of Team Peru last summer, working on a photo project in the small...
View ArticleThe Role of a Change Agent (the AASD)
Guest Post by Sean Huber (Team Peru January 2013), Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Developing a framework for understanding how to repeat the process of community social change is...
View ArticleAn Opportunity to Question Assumptions
Guest Post by Anja Mondragon, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 Community development: what does it mean to me? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple and really I’m not the community in...
View ArticleEmpowerment and Accountability: Who Should Care?
Guest Post by Gabby Abrego, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 To achieve positive and worthy community development and social change, more than just good intentions and planning need to be...
View ArticleBalance
Guest Post by Mandy Kruse, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 This class highlighted the time, effort, and buy-in that is required to achieve social change by engaging and involving...
View ArticleCommunity Development: What is Important to Consider?
Guest Post by Haroon Noori, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 The Community Social Change workshop helped me broaden my perspective of development in rural areas; embedding AASD’s...
View ArticleAn Organic Workshop
Guest Post by Franck Lemperle, Community Social Change Workshop, April 2013 In the last couple of months, since my first day at MIIS, I have been trying to understand what exactly social development...
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J-Term Policy Class Conducts Research on Poverty & Connectivity
This January, a group of 25 students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies (MIIS) traveled down to the Sacred Valley to put their semester-long theories into practice. What began as a...
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