Welcome to the last newsletter of 2020! I’m sure you’ll agree with me that this has been one wild ride of a year! It was Baraza’s first year too, full of incredible highs and humbling lows, but at the end of it, we survived! I’ve spent a year sharing my reflections with you, and I’m grateful to everyone who has read and shared this newsletter. For this final edition for the year I’d like to ‘pass the mic’ to the wonderful team at Baraza, whom I’ve had the privilege and honor of working with this year. We have become not just work colleagues but real friends, through a most challenging year. So, ‘From the Curator’s Desk’ this time around is from their desks: they will share their big lessons for 2020. *Cue applause*
Our Last Newsletter Of The Year December
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