An opportunity to join the City Council in its first meeting in 2023, and receiving the mayor’s State of the City Address, by leading a moment of prayer.

In the second half of 2022, Sri Lankans took to the streets in protest of the seemingly insurmountable debt looming over their country, and the apparently clear connections with corruption internally and vulture opportunism externally. Puerto Rico’s finances have been over public financial oversight by a board imposed by an appointed from Washington since 2017. These two seemingly unrelated stories are opening a series of conversations with the Presbyterian Disaster Assistance (of the Presbyterian Church, USA) about a ubiquitous and hampering reality world-wide.