Last year I got a generous grant from Sappi Ideas That Matter to create flash cards on tenants’ rights with the NY grassroots organization Tenants & Neighbors. After working together for months and sending them out to the printers, the cards have arrived! The boxed set of thirty cards translates NY state’s official Tenants Rights Guide document into good fun and layman’s terms on topics from security deposits and subletting to privacy and discrimination. It’s pretty awesome to see what was once a one-off turn into truckloads, and they’ll be given to members and made available in their online store soon - will keep you posted…

I’m back after an intense and enlightening month of ethnography field research in Malaysia and Indonesia and then more research in Sweden and Denmark. Still thinking about all the people who’ve touched me over the past month+ and parsing through over 3,000 photos (I’m a good Asian!). Lots of thoughts and observations to trickle out over time, but as a start, trains with open doors (Indonesia and Malaysia) are better than trains with locked ones (Sweden and Denmark). Sticking your head out like a dog in a car - and better yet, doing this with other people - can be one of life’s great moments.