Notes from Helsinki

  Gio Om has been analyzing my dreams from our trip to Qatar. “Are you still dreaming of women in black abayas walking down the beach, Ms. Nathan?” he queries most mornings when he sees me. A couple of weeks ago, when I was just back from Helsinki, Gio, a BAA...

And now, Helsinki!

The henna on my hands has barely dried from our trip to Doha, Qatar and now I’m off to Finland! I was invited by Sitra, the Finnish Innovation Fund, to participate in the Helsinki Design Lab:  Education Challenge. This week, I’m in Helsinki, Finland where...

A Whirlwind Trip to Doha, Qatar

After traveling my own country for months, part of me thought I was done traveling with adolescents in large numbers. Yet the experience wouldn’t have been the same without all 20 of my amazing Boston Arts Academy students who recently joined me on a...

Visiting the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

At the invitation of Professor John Vogel, I recently traveled to Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. I was joined by  Corey Evans, Director of the Center for Arts in Education (CAE), and two visual arts juniors, Josh Pimental and Vasili Luzanau. Professor Vogel had...