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Alessandra Pigni has run the blog Mindful Next, since 2011, to help aid workers build resilience, prevent burnout and keep sane while serving others in the field.

Trained as a clinical psychologist, she has worked as a psychologist with M\xe9decins Sans Fronti\xe8res/Doctors Without Borders and as a consultant with local and international NGOs spending a good part of the last seven years in Palestine. She is currently a visiting research fellow at the University of Oxford working on a book on aid workers' wellbeing.