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When Integration Succeeds but Building a Career Remains Difficult

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Beer, Bedlam, and Belonging: The World of Denmark’s Graduate Trucks

Young women in white student caps celebrate on a green-railed graduation truck decorated with Danish flags and balloons, cheering and holding drinks as they ride through town
Customs & traditions

ADHD Is An Explanation, Not An Excuse.

A woman in a dark floral dress sits in an armchair with hands clasped, looking thoughtfully off to the side, in a softly lit lounge area with grey curtains and dark furniture
Health & wellbeing

When Integration Succeeds but Building a Career Remains Difficult

Migrant integration is often measured by whether or not someone manages to enter the labor market. But just as employment alone does not automatically...

ADHD Is An Explanation, Not An Excuse.

He walked in the way people walk when they have been fighting for a long time. Not dramatic, not loud, just heavy, the kind...

Beer, Bedlam, and Belonging: The World of Denmark’s Graduate Trucks

The cacophony of shrill whistles and blaring music startled my family as a truck filled with giddy, inebriated teenagers pulled out in front of...

The Org Chart Is a Fiction

A new leader I was coaching, let's call him John, walked into his first strategy meeting and did everything right. He had prepared a clear...

Tur-retur: Episode 16 – An Ode to the A (My Newfound Love of Buses)

I could pretend we drew on well-reasoned criteria when considering what area of Copenhagen to live in as we transitioned back to Denmark after...
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