Joanna Lovatt, Communications Officer at Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center

Joanna moved to Bangladesh to pursue a career in international development. She now works as a Communications Officer at Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center (BYLC), and writes about leadership, education, sustainability, and global inequality. You can follow her on Twitter at @jolovattbd

Leadership in the absence of authority

Joanna Lovatt, Communications Officer at Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center, 13 June 2014 - Asia, Development Debates, Other

Not long after I arrived in Bangladesh, something very mundane happened to me that just happened to shatter my perspective. I was walking home, holding onto the remains of my lunch and naively expecting to encounter a rubbish bin along …

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