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This week’s lectures bring internet activists, a bestselling novelist, and a professor of Islamic studies to the podium.

Title: “Bridging the Technological Divide in Guatemala: A Tale of Community-Building, Mud, Chickens, and the Internet”

The Basics: Randall Shea and Juana Pérez Gómez, volunteers with the San Carlos Foundation, and Jeff Taylor, founder of Monster.com, will speak about an Internet project to educate village students in Guatemala. Originally from Guatemala, Pérez Gómez moved to Mexico with her family in 1982 to flee the country’s armed internal conflict. She returned home after 14 years in a refugee camp and now teaches in a village middle school. Her husband, Shea, created an educational program for the village...

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