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Happy 2015!
Happy New Year to all of our fantastic readers! As amazing as 2014 was for us here at the Eritrean Diaspora Network, we are even more excited to see what 2015 has in store! Many people take the New Year as an opportunity to reflect on their past twelve months, and to...
EDN in Transition: A Year in Review
2014 has been a good year for the Eritrean Diaspora Network (EDN). Our organization’s level of activity has rapidly increased over the last twelve months, as we have fully transitioned into an “action-oriented” group capable of maintaining a consistent level of...
Who’s Down for Mike Brown? The African Diaspora and Racialized Policing
Events of the last several weeks have served as poignant reminder (if we really needed one) that race and racial tensions remains a central feature of American social and political life. The deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, and the failure of grand juries in...
December Fundraising Update
Wow! We are sincerely humbled by the outpour of support we received these past few weeks by Eritreans and friends of Eritreans in the diaspora. As this was our first targeted organizational fundraising effort, the outcome was difficult to predict, but were blown...
7 Ways to Improve Your LinkedIn Profile
LinkedIn User Growth over Time Take a look at the chart above. There has been an incredible growth in the number of users of the social network for professionals, LinkedIn. Over the past five years, the user base has grown from around 30 million to over 300 million...
Thanksgiving, Immigration, and Eritrea
The holidays are here and first in line is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a favorite holiday for many. In many Eritrean households, turkey is served right along with tsebhi dorho, as families gather, laughs are had, and memories are made. Many of us probably don’t take...
Giving Tuesday & EDN
Thanksgiving, a single day out of 365 when we are reminded to pause and acknowledge our good fortune, reflect on all that we are grateful for, and extend a good deed to those less fortunate, has ironically become tarnished by gluttony, materialism, and our obsession...
Electoral Success Models for the Eritrean-American Community
We previously shared with you why we feel it is important that Eritreans vote in the upcoming midterm elections. We wanted to highlight some of the gains that immigrants and first-generation American communities are making in electoral politics. There is much to learn...
Ask EDN: Professional Development Advice
Dear EDN, Every time I meet someone in a professional or networking context, I always get the question “Where are you from?” I’m always torn between stating where I grew up, where I live, and also wanting to represent Eritrea… how should I approach this in the...
Lampedusa: One Year Later
A little over a year ago, the Italian island of Lampedusa was a place not known to most Eritreans. Today, the name of this idyllic, coastal community remains painfully etched in the minds of most of our citizens, both at home and in the diaspora. The death of 368 of...