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Showcasing the Global Network of Kellogg Fellows

I've just returned from a fact finding visit in Anse a Pitres. I am still processing what we saw. The people's voices ringing in my ears, their anguish weighing heavily on my heart. My eyes and my throat remember the dry graininess of the dust laden wind, I can still taste it's powdery saltiness on my tongue....

Details: Written by Nancy M. Dorsinville

haiti camps as haitians leave dominican republic

I am here in Anse a Pitres. Road mostly unpaved so, hard to write. Witnessed much environmental devastation along the way. Passed by camps, horrific! Utter makeshift, reminiscent of first days after earthquake: sticks of wood and quilt like covers, pieced together remnants of cloth, cardboard--the kind of "cover" which we Haitians say can fool the sun but not the rain...

Details: Written by Nancy M. Dorsinville

Dear Nancy (and Kellogg Fellows),

Thank you for getting us started on this conversation.

I am still working at my non-profit AgroFrontera in the Montecristi Province in the Dominican Republic and for the past 3 years our family has been operating a small dairy farm.

Details: Written by Frederick V. Payton

Dear Kellogg Fellows Community,

As a Kellogg Fellow from class 16, Haitian and U.S citizen, I am reaching out at this time of crisis to share with you what is happening to our Dominican brothers and sisters of Haitian descent and Haitian migrant workers.

As some of you may know, in 2013, the Dominican Republic (DR) Supreme Court ruled to retroactively exclude citizenship to children of Haitian migrants born after 1929, whose births were never registered in the country.

Details: Written by Nancy M. Dorsinville

Sylvia Rosales-Fike, a leader of many economic development and social justice projects—from Detroit to Central America—writes on the blog Shetroit about undocumented college student Dayanna Rebolledo, a speaker on KFLA Forum 2012′s “Voices of Detroit panel."

Details: Written by Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance

In 2012, if you had a Latin American Portfolio, you let us know through the survey that we emailed to the entire network. You can now download the directories of information we’ve received so far from fellows with Portfolios in Latin American and the Caribbean.

Details: Written by Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance

Together we’ve built the foundation for a better network—a network for action that is meaningful to your work. We have not reached the end of a Social Network Analysis (SNA) project; we have reached the beginning of the new KFLA.