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Monthly Archives: January 2009

Winter contemplations, snow, geese and Emiliana Torrini’s Sunny Road

January 23, 2009by Emily Jacobi Leave a comment

I’m on a bus from Washington DC to NY. Off in the distance I see Newark, power plants, highways and powerlines. But just out the bus window I see brown […]

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A mother in the unofficial refugee camp at Tal, Bangladesh

Year in Review: Bangladesh, early January ’08

January 16, 2009by Emily Jacobi Leave a comment

About a year ago I was in Kutupalong Refugee Camp in eastern Bangladesh, 40 kilometers from the Burma/Myanmar border. It was a dusty, bumpy ride from Cox’s Bazaar, the Bangladeshi […]

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Rose Marie introduces the dance

Dancing into the new year

January 10, 2009by Emily Jacobi Leave a comment

Yesterday I had the pleasure of joining my dear friend and soeur Carol Ann at a dinner party in Williamsburg. I was surprised to learn that I had previously met […]

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Hello world!

January 7, 2009by Emily Jacobi Leave a comment

I started my first blog at 19. It went through variations and manifestations, eventually becoming a friends-only place for poetry and inspiration. Now, it’s a record and testament to my […]

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About Emily

Emily Jacobi

Emily Jacobi

Amplifying marginalized voices

Executive Director of Digital Democracy

Speaker / Writer / Photographer / Trainer

From traveling to Cuba as a journalist at the age of 13 to ground-breaking research on the role of technology in the 2007 Saffron Uprising in Burma/Myanmar, I've seen first-hand the potential for media & technology to power citizen-to-citizen connections and drive civic engagement.

My ambient intimacy

  • Heading offline for the next week. This blog post - Dawn on the Amazon - explores what the work is all about emilyjacobi.com/2013/05/13/daw… 4 days ago
  • Thinking about the term "overburden" further convinces me of the necessity to reclaiming language. 6 days ago
  • To get an idea of how huge the Amazon rainforest is: 17% of it has been cleared to date, an area the size of FRANCE. via @TIME 6 days ago
  • RT @xeni: “Each of us has lost their mother or grandparents. That is why we are here." It was also Mother's Day in Guatemala. http://t.co/O… 6 days ago

Flickr Photos

How awesome is this? A birthday card from my cousin of her one-eyed cat, Jethro.

Ice on the Hudson.

Red Rock, NY.

The sky writes poetry; one need only look up.

Ice patterns.

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  • Astronomy Picture of the Day
  • Digital Democracy
  • Honeymoon Farm
  • Orwell – blogged
  • Por Vida
  • Y-Press: Youth journalism

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