In 1995, 12-year-old Craig Kielburger was flipping through the Toronto Star looking for comics when he came across an article about the murder of Iqbal Masih, a Pakistani child labor activist who was also 12. Upset by this story, Kielburger gathered a small ...
The Pangaea Project arranges overseas learning experiences for low-income high school students from Portland, Oregon. In the eight-month-long program, students meet social entrepreneurs and activists working on issues related to justice, equality and sustainability. They visit sustainable copper mining projects in Ecuador and ...
Philadelphia restaurateur Judy Wicks hadn’t sought to become a food activist and sustainability entrepreneur when she opened the White Dog Café in 1983. But when she learned about the dire living conditions of the pigs whose meat her restaurant purchased, she immediately took ...
A while back we conducted an interview with Joan Sullivan, who was then the Principal of the Bronx Academy of Letters, a New York City middle and high school founded in 2003. Earlier this year, Sullivan was appointed Los Angeles’ Deputy Mayor of ...
Nancy Henkin believes there isn’t enough contact across generations. For the past 30 years she’s been striving to remedy that imbalance. As the founder and executive director of the Intergenerational Center, Nancy works to enhance and engage these communities by pairing old and ...
In honor of you—our wise and beautiful* readers—Dowser officially dubs May 27 “Commenter Appreciation Day"! We’ve received some great comments, which we’re especially stoked about given that we’re only six weeks old. We know they sometimes get overlooked, so here’s a roundup of ...