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Nisha Anand
Where is the love?
I am the mother of two teenagers. Becoming a parent is the greatest joy of my life and also the hardest thing I’ve ever done, which is...
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Nisha Anand
- Dec 13, 2021
- 17 min
Putting The United Back Into The United States
Putting The United Back Into The United States: Nisha Anand of Dream Corps On The 5 Things That Each Of Us Can Do To Help Unite Our Polarize
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- Sep 13, 2021
- 4 min
9/11 Twenty Years Later, and the Meaning of Fierce Unity
My old boss and friend Van Jones likes to say that America has always been two things. On one hand, you have America’s ugly founding...
Nisha Anand
- Jun 2, 2021
- 4 min
I risked my life fighting for democracy abroad. I won’t let it die in my own home.
Twenty-two years ago, I was sentenced to five years in prison in the military dictatorship of Myanmar. So when Michael Flynn suggested a...
Nisha Anand
- Feb 9, 2021
- 4 min
THANK YOU, VAN JONES
An open letter to my friend, Van Jones Dear Van, Congratulations on your promotion to Co-Chair of the REFORM Alliance Executive Board....
Nisha Anand
- Feb 8, 2021
- 2 min
A TED BOOK LIST: 68 READS THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU
I was recently asked by IDEAS.TED.COM to join 67 other influential TED speakers in recommending a life-altering read. While I have been...
Nisha Anand
- Sep 25, 2020
- 2 min
WHAT 56 MILLION KIDS, AND THEIR PARENTS, NEED TO HEAR FROM BIDEN AND TRUMP
Nisha Anand and Van Jones offer three common ground solutions to the “back to school” crisis during these corona times. Kids should be...
Nisha Anand
- Sep 23, 2020
- 4 min
IN MEMORY OF THE LIFE AND LEGACY FROM JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG
Nisha Anand, CEO, Dream Corps The passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg has thrown rocket fuel on an already raging partisan fire. In a final...
Nisha Anand
- Sep 19, 2020
- 3 min
WHAT ARE YOUR BEST BACK-TO-SCHOOL IDEAS?
by Arianna Huffington and Nisha Anand If this were like any other year, our nation’s 56 million children would be filing into our 130,000...
Nisha Anand
- Jul 2, 2020
- 4 min
FIVE GROUPS RE-FOUNDING AMERICA
This is a Fourth of July unlike any other. To truly honor its deepest meaning, we need to celebrate not just the founders all those years...
Nisha Anand
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
WE CAN'T GO BACK TO NORMAL
After 400 years, America is still just beginning to reckon with a society built on violence against Black people and communities of...
Nisha Anand
- May 10, 2020
- 3 min
MOTHERHOOD AS A RADICAL ACT OF HOPE
I gave birth to my first child nearly 15 years ago. When I tell him how much I love him, I often add in something like, “you made me a...
Nisha Anand
- Feb 4, 2020
- 3 min
WANT A BETTER AMERICA? GET UNCOMFORTABLE
2020 is going to be uncomfortable. That’s a good thing. The first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses mark the real beginning of this election...