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It’s happened yet again. I’ve watched a TedxTalk that has made the “Official List of Maryam’s Favorite TedxTalks Of All Time”… Margaret Heffernan, former CEO of five different businesses, delivers a talk called Dare to disagree. In it, she argues that good disagreement is essential to progress. She starts her talk by exploring the story […]

Ciril Jazbec is a man with a story to shoot. As an independent freelance photographer, Jazbec takes his craft around the globe to snap photos that cultivate “gratitude, solidarity, and respect.” Jazbec recently pointed his lens in Kamapla to curate a series entitled “Kampala Rising,” capturing Uganda’s modern youth culture. He calls this generation “citizens of the world,” and credits their progressiveness with […]

Rita Pierson is amazing. She comes from a family of educators and has been one herself for the past 40 years. This lady just gets it. Her energy is electrifying and her passion for teaching is evident. Her TedxTalk is oozing with hope for the future of education. In her talk, she discusses the importance of the […]

I make a lost of lists. Lists of books I want to read, places I want to visit, crazy things I want to do, and people I want to meet. Christopher Aiff (along with Macklemore, Oprah, and Robert Downey Jr.) is at the top of my “People I’d Love to Have A Conversation Over Coffee […]

We all know that Friday is the best day of the week, so in honor of it being the most joyous of days, the only thing that makes sense is to showcase Robert Downey Jr via picture slideshow. He brings the world just as much (arguably more) joy as Fridays do, and his mere existence […]

[Warning]: This blog post won’t solve all of life’s problems but might help guide you towards being happier today, tomorrow, and every day after that. [Confession]: I have a problem when it comes to TedxTalks. An addiction really. I have a tendency to cite every new TedxTalk that I watch as my all-time favorite. But […]

Met this gorilla friend in Uganda’s Bwindi Impenetrable Forest.

Meet James. He hails from Seattle. After graduating from the University of Washington with a degree in Biology he moved to San Diego to help us make films after seeing and an ad on Craigslist. Yes, Craigslist. The strange recruiting tactics seemed to have worked, because he’s been with us for nearly a year. I […]

The air is full of promise. Children walking through Gulu town, heading home from school at the end of the day.

A woman prepares posho, a local dish made with dried, crushed corn.