Epilogue (Mexico City, make_sense - Week 6)
Peter Tarson finishes his journey and reflects on lessons learned.
"Verify Token" (Mexico City, make_sense - Week 5)
As their team faces its darkest hour, Peter Tarson and his friends battle uncooperative technology and changing expectations to push their deliverable to the finish line.
Sacred and Dust (Mexico City, make_sense - Week 4)
As the push to complete his chatbot prototype accelerates, Peter ventures to the remote Iztapalapa to meet women from the periphery. There, he meets challenges with cultural context, language barriers, and group expectations, which he navigates with solidarity and cameraderie.
Under the False Sandalwood (Mexico City, make_sense - Week 3)
Peter Tarson successfully builds a working chatbot (!!). He explores a few lovely museums. He fails miserably at planting a tree. Illness ravages his cohort. He watches the best movie of his life.
The Diablito is in the Details (Mexico City, make_sense - Week 2)
Peter Tarson wrestles with cultural sensitivity and economic context as the struggle to build a rural financial education platform rages on. He finds allies in new places.
Mexico City, make_sense - Week 1
In this heartfelt coming-of-age narrative, young Oxford student (Peter Tarson)'s mission to build supply-chain resources for rural women transforms into a thrilling quest to find food, friendship, and financial documentation.
Reflection on Week 1
Peter Tarson, 1st year Laidlaw Scholar from Worcester College, Oxford University, discusses his experiences with research and team building during the first week of his program.