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Meet a Sandboxer: John Roberts

Tuesday, July 12th, 2011

Meet Sandboxer John Roberts! Following his motto “Individually we can do little. Together we can heal the world.” John is the Founder of Heal the World, an organization aiming to improve the educational structures of developing countries. Currently he’s launching The Open University of West Africa to solve the region’s most pressing teaching challenges.

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Meet a Sandboxer: Gustav Borgefalk

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

It was a gorgeous spring morning in New York, and the Bacchanal festival at Columbia University was in full swing when Gustav Borgefalk and I met for coffee. Gustav is currently a student at the Stockholm School of Economics. Mild mannered, friendly and easygoing, he told me all about his passion for essay writing and [...]

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IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University

Saturday, February 14th, 2009

I’m back in New York from inspiring days at the IVY Leadership Summit 2009 at Brown University. Every year, student leaders from all the 8 Ivy League Universities meet to exchange ideas and listen to extraordinary keynotes (for example Sergei Nikititsch Khrushchev, son of former Sovjet Prime Minister Khrushchev and professor at Brown, “The Cuban [...]

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