Intern spotlight // Animation
Meet Arley. Arley’s cool factor is through the roof. Is it that he’s our one and only Animation Intern, now beginning his second season of interning with Invisible Children? Is it that he’s a boss at drums and has played in two bands? Or perhaps the fact that he was almost named after a Harley […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // The surprising science of happiness
Ah, yes. We all love a good formula for happiness. This time, Harvard professor Dan Gilbert in his TED Talk “The surprising science of happiness” lays out an unusual roadmap to that ever-elusive pot-o’-gold at the end of the happiness rainbow: the prefrontal cortex. According to Gilbert’s extensive and compelling research, what we think will […]
Meet (some of) our Roadies
This September we are launching our 16th tour (#zeroLRA) and it’s the most exciting tour we’ve done so far. We know we say that every time, but this time we mean it. Because this time, instead of just getting you psyched about how great things could be, our Roadies will be showing you real results of how […]
What we’re reading // In the Heart of Life
The Eldon’s are like family to Invisible Children. Not only because Kathy Eldon and Amy Eldon Turteltaub spoke at the 2013 Fourth Estate Leadership Summit, but because Invisible Children exists as an organization only because of the Eldon’s: Dan Eldon, specifically. Dan Eldon was a young artist, activist, and adventurer committed to documenting the horrific famine in […]
Intern spotlight // Engagement 2.0
Meet Heloisa and Michelle. They are two fall semester interns on the Engagement Team and responsible for making sure our supporters are well taken care of. Heloisa was born and raised in Brazil, but she knew after attending the first Fourth Estate Summit in 2011 that her love of IC was only just beginning. Now […]
How hosting Roadies will get you better grades and more friends
I could sit here and bullet all the reasons you should invite our Roadies to your school this fall (it wouldn’t be hard—there are countless reasons). But you know that we at Invisible Children love a good story, so instead I will introduce you to Drake Alexander. Drake is a junior at Justin-Siena High School […]
TED Talk Tuesdays // How can young people make an impact?
When TED Radio Hour (a co-production of NPR and TED) explored what defines millennials in their segment, “The Next Greatest Generation?,” they looked to Natalie Warne’s 2011 TEDxTeen talk for an answer. Entitled “How can young people make an impact?,” Natalie recounts her experiences as a young teenage activist organizing rallies, mobilizing fellow activists all […]
Now hiring // Front-End Engineer
Good news: Invisible Children is home to a department of innovative, talented Web experts. And we’ve clumped them together and decided to call them IC Labs. They are the ones we have to thank for the impressive design and user experience of our website. More good news: you can join their team. We’re currently hiring […]
The power of the pen // Malala Yousafzai’s speech at the Library of Birmingham
At the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit, Ambassador Samantha Power stated in her speech that there is one name that will “forever be synonymous with dignity and bravery.” That name is Malala Yousafzai. Now 16, Malala is an advocate for the equal rights of girls’ education in Pakistan. Until the age of 15, Pakistan had been […]
A different kind of TEDxTalk Tuesday // The Last Lecture
Today I’m breaking my own rules to bring you a video that looks like a TEDxTalk, sounds like a TEDxTalk, but isn’t actually a TEDxTalk. Ever since a group of us interns sat riveted watching this video last week, I decided to throw it back to 2008, when a brilliant professor at Carnegie Melon University […]