Hannah Wallace

JANERA.com anti-slavery fundraiser this Thursday

We interrupt our regular programming for a moment to plug JANERA.com, a fabulous organization I work for, and our upcoming fundraiser for the Somaly Mam Foundation this Thursday.
 
Details are here.

And here's the short version:  

Chelsea Art Museum - 26 March

9pm - 1am

Speaker E. Benjamin Skinner, author of "A Crime So Monstrous," great music, open bar

$40 in advance RSVP 

$50 at the door

If you want to learn more about modern-day slavery, buy Ben Skinner's book (now out in paperback) and read my interview with him.

Food, politics, and travel

September has been a busy month.  I attended Slow Food Nation in San Francisco, where I grazed for story ideas and on delicious morsels of farm-fresh food.  I also caught up with my coffee world contacts at the coffee pavilion, beautifully curated by Ecco Caffe's Andrew Barnett, Ritual's Eileen Hassi, and coffee consultant Tony Konecny; went to a panel where Dan Barber, Michael Pollan, Winona LaDuke, and Gary Nabhan spoke about re-localizing the food system; saw a preview of Michael Pollan and Eric Schlosser's upcoming movie, Food Inc.; and attended a dinner where environmental activist and author Vandana Shiva spoke.

I've been working on a few articles that will be out soon, but in the meantime here are two recent pieces I've written for JANERA.com, the Voice of Global Nomads. One, a Q&A with New York Times Frugal Traveler Matt Gross; the other, a blog post about a recent Saturday I spent going door-to-door for Obama-Biden in Northeastern Philadelphia.

Canvassing for Obama

Read my blog for JANERA.com about going door-to-door for Obama in the suburbs of Philadelphia.

Basel: where soccer meets art

Post #3 from Art Basel 2008, where I talk about galleries with a global reach.

Art Basel: Middle Eastern Art

Post #2 on this year's fair—and an emerging market.

Art Basel: the Inside Scoop

The first of three blog posts for JANERA.com from Art Basel 2008, in which I dish about art world insiders dishing. 

America's waning hegemony

Here's my attempt to sum up the conversations we had last night at the Global Nomad dinner salon at NYC's Norwood Club, where Parag Khanna, Berhanu Nega (Mayor elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) and Mathew Bishop from the Economist spoke about America's waning hegemony.