Double-fudge brownie balls with rainbow sprinkles, fresh chocolate-covered California strawberries, and spiced oriental tofu with garden vegetables. This was how our third week of the Washington Leadership Program (WLP) started, with a Sunday brunch at Sophie’s home, Director of Communications for Al-Jazeera, a former Producer at CNN and more importantly, a...

Let’s begin with a quote. Two quotes, actually. “We’re all perfectionists, so we all want to be there already.” – Mona Mohib

"The feeling of being hurried is not usually the result of living a full life and having no time. It is on the contrary born of a vague fear that we are wasting our life. When we do not do the one thing we ought to do, we have no time f...

I can’t believe it’s only been one week since I first arrived in DC for the summer! I’m amazed at how much we’ve already learnt and experienced in the first week of the WLP program. From meeting Kal Penn and Aneesh Chopra to running into my state senator, Sherrod Brown, in the tunnels under the Capitol, I’ve met so many interesting and engaging people that a...