Julie Schwietert
Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.
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The name peaceBOMB describes exactly what our jewelry is: peace made from bombs.
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Julie Schwietert Collazo suggests you pack these items when heading to the Pyrenees.
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I’ve learned a lot about what it takes to keep a non-profit on its feet.
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Aug/Sept travel tips from the end of the road on Cape Cod.
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A slick new video shows you the environmental cost of our information hunger…
This follows on the heels of last year’s Greenpeace campaign to urge Facebook to “Un-Friend Coal.”
* Feature photo: quapan
Continue Reading →Matador pal Alisha Miranda just tipped me off to a new crowd-funding platform, Start Some Good, which seems a lot like Kickstarter, but is different in that SSG focuses on funding projects aimed at the “social good.”
There are some pretty interesting projects listed, including an initiative to teach soccer to [...]
Continue Reading →Caribbean Week in NYC is scheduled for June 5-11, 2011, and will include many events, including a Black Tie and Barefoot Ball at The Plaza, free movies, and a free travel fair at Grand Central.
Fore more information visit the Caribbean Week NYC website.
Continue Reading →It’s one thing for a country to sign an accord it doesn’t really intend to adhere to, or to say that the environment is important.
It’s another thing entirely when a country’s government declares that nature’s rights will be safeguarded as carefully as human beings’ rights.
Bolivia’s government has drafted “The Law of [...]
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MatadorU expands its scholarship program to include designated spots for Belizean writers and photographers.
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