Blog Updates and inspiration

Yesterday the United States Senate confirmed Samantha Power as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations with strong bi-partisan support. Power wrote the book on ending genocide in the modern world (literally), and we’ve been fans for years. This spring, we got to sit down with her and discuss Fourth Estate Summit and international justice. We send […]

“I understand that I only have one life. I can’t go about it twice. That’s kind of what brought me to this point. I don’t want to be at 60 and regret having spent my whole life doing something that wasn’t really who I am.” And that’s how the first episode of Heartbeats of Fiji begins. […]

A pool of water formed on top of the rock outcrop at Fort Patiko in northern Uganda.

For those of you have been to any IC dance party, you know it’s not complete until DJ Fyler Tordham takes the stage. To keep his DJ career alive, Fyler dabbles in Graphic Design as IC’s Lead Designer. You might know him from such things as: creating the KONY 2012 campaign OR making cameos in […]

German photographer Kai Wiedenhöfer has seen a lot of walls over the past couple of decades. Beginning with the Berlin Wall, which he witnessed collapse in 1989, Kai has photographed many of the world’s most famous barriers, including the Peace Lines in Belfast, the DMZ between North and South Korea, and the U.S. & Mexico border. […]

Invisible Children recently launched its newest advocacy campaign #zeroLRA, in which global citizens are encouraged to contact their leaders to commit to bringing Joseph Kony to justice and seeing an end to kidnapping, rape and murder by his rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA.) This is a crucial time to remind our officials of […]

Our partners at The Resolve LRA Crisis Initiative recently released a comprehensive report entitled “Loosening Kony’s Grip: Defection Strategies for Today’s LRA”. The report was written by Phil Lancaster, PhD and Ledio Cakaj and edited by Paul Ronan. As part of their research, they interviewed 22 former Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) combatants and abductees. The […]

Our obsession with Betty Who started during a game that Jen from The Jane Doze and I play where we try to one-up each other with good music. The goal is to find something that the other person has never heard of but totally falls in love with. When Jen sent me “Somebody Loves You” […]

I’m a reader. Books make me incredibly happy and I divide my time between reading new-ish stuff and throwback classics. I want a well-rounded brain, after all. Below is an infographic of classic books that are recommended must-reads (and by that I mean the source says these titles are the UK’s most borrowed library books). […]

The Anaka computer lab was commissioned one year ago during a Schools for Schools trip to Uganda. Students from U.S. schools raised money for the refurbishment of a classroom at Anaka Secondary School to transform it into a computer lab with 30 workstations. Now that construction work is complete, Schools for Schools is focusing on […]