Rand Engel directed Balkan Sunflowers, a humanitarian program in Kosovo, 1999-2015. His investigative articles have been published (long ago) in the Boston Globe, Baltimore Sun, New York Times/International Herald Tribune, and in Kosovo publications Koha Ditore and Balkan Insight. Seventeen mostly long-form political articles can be read at https://rantt.com/author/rand_engel. When not perambulating, Rand lives at Aikido in Fredericksburg in Virginia. He holds the rank of Sandan in Aikido.