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Chamas in Kenya - A Polychromatic Landscape

Student Experience

Today was a lesson in the different types of women’s groups that are interested in working with Zawadisha and how their needs can vary greatly. After a morning spent conducting more interviews with the Upendo group we had the opportunity to join Jen and Cindy as they met with groups interested in working with Zawadisha. …

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Common Sense & Eating Larvae in Connecticut: a Travelogue

Student Experience

This fall, Team Blue Wave — Nick Lee (C13), Ema Phelps (C16), Sam Ruben (C17), and myself — collaborated on an Experiential Learning (EL) project with Beau Perry (C5), founder of Olazul, a non-profit developer of sustainable, market-based solutions for satisfying demand for ocean goods. Our team’s task was to design an operations plan for …

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Marketing the work not the brand

Student Experience

My Experiential Learning team — Scott Bright (C17), Julian Fishman (C17), Trey Graham (C15), Sam Ruben (C17/PA4), and myself — recently partnered with the Bay Area Climate Collaborative (BACC) a non-profit project of the Silicon Valley Leadership Group and the Mayors of San Jose, San Francisco, and Oakland.  The BACC acts as a public-private catalyst …

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Sam Ruben: Learning the Most From Those We Disagree With

Community

Sam Ruben knew before he applied to Presidio Graduate School that it was a place where he belongs. He was impressed by the aptitude and diversity of the “Presidians” he met through a good friend studying in the MBA program, and he immediately aligned with their determination to create a better world for the many, …

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