“For youth, by youth.” This sums up our approach at Global Nomads: Our programs and learning experiences are designed for a global youth audience, by global youth themselves. Over the last five years, I’ve worked on the implementation side of our Student to World program, collaborating with educators to bring our courses to young people […]

What drew you to economics? What first caught my attention was hearing about economic growth. At the time, I was seeing many challenges in my country, particularly related to poverty and inequality, and I started wondering whether economic growth could be part of the path toward reducing those gaps. I was also interested in seeing […]

As a Senior Director of Operations, I spend most of my time thinking about systems, policies, workflows, excel sheets formulas, payroll cycles, performance management, onboarding plans-  the infrastructure that allows an organization to function effectively and efficiently. When I was first introduced to BraidedWork, I saw it as an integral part of our organizational culture. […]

Finding My Perspective Through Storytelling Stories have been a part of my life since Year 7. After I won second place in an intraschool creative writing competition, I realised that I do have a distinct voice, which I’d spend the next few years learning how to express. That I had things to say doesn’t mean […]

Friendship is one of those words that feels simple until you try to define it across borders. What does it mean to feel close to someone you’ve never met in person? How do you build trust with someone whose language, culture, and daily reality look nothing like yours? On World Friendship Day, we asked two […]

I was born and raised in Jordan for 18 years of my life. I myself come from the Dwairi family — Dwairi means sparrow in Arabic — and I’ve lived part of my life on my grandfather’s land where he had basically a farm of his own. We have deep connections to our land and […]