Alysa Hullett – The Seattle Globalist

While we Americans are busy playing football against a giant turkey, tons of other countries are celebrating Thanksgiving in their own unique ways. (Photo from Flickr)

5 global Thanksgiving traditions to shake up your holiday

by Alysa Hullett

Want to celebrate the most American of holidays with a bit of a twist. Try these global Thanksgiving traditions.

Protesters in Guerrero marched earlier this year with a cutout of Nestora Salgado. The Renton mom became leader of a community police force in her home town, and has been held in jail for two years. (Photo by Fernando Salgado)

Meeting La Comandante: a jailhouse interview with Nestora Salgado

by Alysa Hullett

Nestora Salgado gave up a quiet life near Seattle to lead a community police force in her hometown in Mexico. Now she continues her activism from a prison cell.

Día de los Muertos in Oaxaca stays true to its roots

by Alysa Hullett

While some cities in Mexico have started to adopt features of Halloween, you'll won't find any Disney princesses at Oaxaca's Día de los Muertos celebration.

How a tiny Mexican town was transformed by Azteca restaurants

by Alysa Hullett

The small town of Cuautla in Jalisco, Mexico cashes in on an American Dream fulfilled.

Juan Valadez, a young graphic designer who lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, says the idea of moving to the U.S. isn't of interest to him or most of his friends. (Photo by Alysa Hullett)

Young Mexicans finding fewer reasons to head north

by Alysa Hullett

For entrepreneurial young Mexicans, dreams of prosperity no longer lie across the border.

(Photo by Quinn Dombrowski via Flickr)

Rejecting the American Dream, Mexicans reintegrate back home

by Alysa Hullett

Divided from family and missing their culture, returning home is an obvious choice for many Mexican immigrants. But things aren't always so easy once they get there.

Mexican immigration slows as ‘better life’ in US proves elusive

by Alysa Hullett

More and more Mexican migrants are giving up lives and jobs in the Northwest to go back across the border.

Why more women in leadership will mean fewer women in poverty

by Alysa Hullett

International Women’s Day is holiday that usually gets ignored. So it makes a great moment to reflect on a widely ignored issue: women in poverty.

Rethinking study abroad, diverse youth travel to China and Middle East

by Alysa Hullett

Study abroad is a defining experience for many high school and college students. But often the students who have access to those programs are white and upper/middle class. One Seattle program hopes to change that.