• Interview with BNID Co-Founder James MacNeil

    Mary Cunningham

    Published June 25, 2016

    I come from a small town in Massachusetts. I had never planned on doing international work. I became interested in different cultures and languages while I was in college at UMass Amherst.

  • Interview with Eric Verploegen: Off-Grid Energy Specialist at MIT D-Lab

    Dahlia Rawji

    Published May 10, 2016

    MIT D-Lab has many different arms more than 20 MIT courses, research groups, and global programs including international development design summits, trainings, and other fieldwork.

  • Interview with Luwam Dirar – Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University

    Dahlia Rawji

    Published April 24, 2016

    Luwam Dirar, originally from Eritrea, is a Research Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs of Harvard University and BNID Board member.

  • Interview with Susan Weiler: Associate Director/Director of Marketing at World Music/CRASHarts

    Dahlia Rawji

    Published March 17, 2016

    World Music was started as a nonprofit in 1990 and has been presenting concerts for 25 years now. In 2001 they also became a platform for contemporary performing artists.

  • Interview with Allison Smith, Program Manager at UNAGB

    Dahlia Rawji

    Published December 23, 2015

    UNAGB is the United Nations Association of Greater Boston, and its official mission is to build a strong network of global citizens in the Boston area.

  • Responding to the Global Migration Crisis through Local Innovation

    Vicky Kelberer

    Published November 28, 2015

    Horrific terrorist attacks on November 13th in Paris shook people across the globe, and in Boston many of us were reminded of the 2013 Marathon attacks.

  • Somu Energy: Recharge Labs

    Dahlia Rawji,Edited by: Cecilia V. Lalama,Gabriela Corbera

    Published November 24, 2015

    David D'Angelo and his team founded an organization that is designed to alleviate energy poverty by providing low-cost, sustainable, clean electricity to villagers across Nepal.

  • Public Health in the Developing World

    Dr. Leandro Grimaldi Bournissaint

    Published November 19, 2015

    A field trip constitutes the foundational platform on which we have got to base further actions and strategies to modify current situations.

  • The Abraham Path Initiative Paves the Way

    Edited by: Cecilia V. Lalama,Gabriela Corbera

    Published October 4, 2015

    Last month, Abraham Path Initiative was chosen as our featured organization of the month. The BNID staff had the distinct pleasure of sitting down with Cully Lundgren, Development Director of Abraham Path Initiative to get an inside scoop of the organization and his advice for development professionals.

  • International Development with CID

    Gabriela Corbera

    Published September 29, 2015

    We had the opportunity to visit the Center for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, and speak with its Executive Director, Marcela Escobari, about the center’s mission and her career advice for anyone interested in development.

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