Blog Updates and inspiration

“I feel like I just got another baby. I am so excited and always want to know where he is, what he is doing, whether he has had something to eat. The feeling is just overwhelming.” These are the words of Mary, the mother of a young man abducted by the Lord’s Resistance Army 12 […]

Students at Anaka Secondary School, a Schools for Schools partner school, pose in front of the blackboard in their classroom. In Uganda, it’s the teacher who moves from one classroom to the next rather than the students.

Last week, I was woken up by an absurd sound that I had never heard before coming from my phone. What appeared on my screen was an AMBER alert issued by the state of California, notifying me of two child abductions that had just taken place. In the alert, detailed information like the license plate, […]

Allow me introduce you to C.J. Campbell. A seemingly typical 26-year-old from Rockford, Illinois who enjoys such things as spoken word poetry, watching Fight Club, reading The Prophet, and eating falafels. But that is where any and all typical things end. Because extraordinary people just cannot be referred to as typical. Cerebral Palsy has confined […]

Kunangbangate Belaha keeps a list. It’s a reminder of what has been stolen from his community in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and way a to keep track of when it is returned. Kunangbangate, also know as Kun, refers to this list as “the list of invisible children” and on it are the names of children […]

When we launched our latest advocacy campaign a few weeks ago, we had an ambitious goal of getting our representatives in Washington, DC to pay attention and recommit to ending the atrocities of Joseph Kony and the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). We asked them to do this by signing a letter that would be delivered […]

Sofia Liberti, a ten-year-old girl living in Germany, knows what it means to stop at nothing. After seeing the KONY 2012 video, Sofia spent a year sharing the documentary with anyone and everyone – her parents, her friends, her church, and even her school principal. Against the urgings of her parents to stop obsessing over […]

The closing performance from the 2013 Fourth Estate Summit is one that still has us reeling. From the combined efforts of some of the most respected artists in Los Angeles came a stunning display of art that lasted over six minutes to cap off the extraordinary weekend. The LXD performed to the accompaniment of an […]

This is it. My final TedxTalk Tuesdays post. This summer has been incredible, and I’m really going to miss my weekly dose of Tedx inspiration. With that said, I’m leaving you all with my favorite TedxTalk post of all time. One that is actually not a TedxTalk at all, but rather a talk that was […]

It was week one on the job at Invisible Children, and my fellow interns and I had jumped headfirst into the largest event the organization had ever thrown: the 2013 Fourth Estate Leadership Summit. From the moment we walked into the office, it was impossible to miss that something truly astounding was about to take […]