Blog Updates and inspiration

I’m sitting near the front of the 140 student classroom at Keyo Secondary School on top of a hill in northern Uganda. Acan Harriet jumps right into the lesson. She has a dry, matter-of-fact tone as she delves into English grammar with her high school class. A cell phone rings with a hit club song. […]

Name:  Kenneth James Laubbacher Age: 81 [Editor’s note: this is inaccurate] Hometown: San Diego, CA Job: Director Of Artist Relations + First Record: The Adams Family soundtrack Last Record: Angel Olsen – Half Way Home Next Record: I’m an impulse buyer. Live by the seat of my pants. First Concert:  Blink, Goldfinger, Mxpx Last Concert: […]

Meet Shannon and Megan. They’re members of our Engagement Team. As interns they’re responsible for ensuring that our donors are taken care of, as well as answering questions about the organization and the LRA conflict. Their department is often referred to as Fun-gagement and Megan and Shannon are sometimes referred to as best friend-terns (#sometimes). Megan has a […]

Our upcoming Fourth Estate Leadership Summit is doing more than bringing together 1,400 young activists and educators for a four-day extravaganza of speakers, breakout sessions, and epic dance parties. It’s also getting top brands from around the world to be at the special Common Good Exchange where you can get to know the people behind organizations […]

Luka is 12 years old. He was born with muscular dystrophy and as a result is unable to use many of his muscles. For most of his life he’s been confined to a wheelchair, but for young Luka, he hasn’t let his disability slow him down. The heart after all is the most important muscle […]

Name:  Hannah Elizabeth Steele Age: 23 Hometown: Newark, Delaware Job: Artist Relations Intern + First Record: Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker (blame my parents) Last Record: Paramore’s Paramore Next Record: Daft Punk’s Random Access Memories First Concert: Hanson in Philadelphia –Haters gonna hate Last Concert: Divine Fits in San Diego Next Concert: Governors Ball Music Fest in NYC + Top Three […]

Today’s Monday Mini Mixtape comes to us all the way from Belgium, courtesy of the buzz blog disco naïveté. If you follow Invisible Children Music, you inevitably will follow disco naïveté. Run by Jarri Van der Haegen, disco naïveté is one of the freshest, most authentic voices in music discovery. It’s such an approachable site for […]

Someone had to drop that slinky in MOVE and leave it to Liana Katherman to be the one to do it (she’s a go-getter, that one). Whether you know her or not, which you probably do (she knows the world), one thing to note about Liana’s journey is her commitment to work toward social justice. Given her work as […]

You’ll never know which lives you influence, or when, or why but you’re always able to remember those individuals who influenced you. The success of Invisible Children is a result of hundreds of staff, supporters, interns, and Roadies that have walked through our doors and, together, built  this unique community. Alex Guest walked through our […]

The Legacy Scholarship Program’s (LSP) debating competition attracted 22 schools from the districts of Gulu, Nwoya, and Amuru. Each school was represented by its best debating team, persuading judges and the audience to accept their argument either opposing or supporting the motion of the day: “The youth are to blame for the low levels of […]