Global Research

“This is a conversation, not a lecture.” The Canadian diplomat and Ashoka Fellow scanned the room of 20 year-old interns and pulled a chair into the circle.

I have now been interning at the Kiva headquarters in San Francisco since mid-May, and I absolutely love it here! Every morning I wake up at 6 am to take a bus and then the Caltrain from Palo Alto, where my relatives live, to the city.

I started my internship on May 27, I cannot believe I have been working here for almost four weeks!   The first two weeks were rather difficult because I felt like I didn’t have enough to do at my internship and was feeling purposeless.  At the same time, I was constantly confused because the State Department, the EU, and Brussels in g