Posts Tagged ‘Blood:Water Staff’
Celebrating Fundamentals Together Pt. II: Taking a Look at Our Values
In October we had a wonderful staff retreat, where we got to reconnect as a team for the first time in a while. Here’s what we did to define our values as an organization and how we can each live them out in everything we do.
Read MoreQ&A with Jake Smith, Our New Executive Director
Jake, welcome back to Blood:Water! We’re so glad you’re coming back. What have you been up to in the meantime?
Read MoreWill the Real Dan Haseltine Please Stand Up?
You’ve now met our entire staff, except for one very important member. You know him as the talented lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning band, Jars of Clay. We know him as a co-founder of Blood:Water and an artist relations guru on the engagement team. But who knew that he has been kissed by Cyndi…
Read MoreWant to get to know K-Flow? Meet our engagement coordinator, Kristin.
Kristin, also known by her rapper name, K-Flow Rida, is truly one of a kind. Blood:Water’s favorite extroverted fashionista originated from Winston Salem, N.C., but fell in love with Nashville, Tenn., post-graduation from the University of Virginia. Go Cavaliers! It was there that she double majored in sociology and African American studies. She realized the pull…
Read MoreShe Sings Arias. She Speaks Swahili. She’s Nadia!
You know Aaron, Jake, Katy, and Barak. Now we’d like to introduce you to our classical-singing, Swahili-speaking technical director, Nadia Kist. Although Nadia is a native New Yorker, she’s lived in Nairobi, Kenya, for the last 11 years. During her time there, she has visited 11 countries on the African continent, and learned to speak…
Read MoreAn Awe-Inspired Firsthand Look: An Update from Zambia
Blood:Water’s story began with a trip to Africa. This trip ignited a passion that bore a vision to see the end of the HIV/AIDS and water crises in Africa. We would like all of our supporters to be able to share in that vision and experience firsthand the work that is being done with their…
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