Mark your calendar:
Watch Craig Kielburger's address live via webcast:
Thursday, February 2nd, 7pm AST
www.stfx.ca
Craig Kielburger, co-founder of the internationally known, youth-driven charity, Free The Children and of Me to We, an innovative social enterprise, will be at St. Francis Xavier University on Feb. 2, 2012 to deliver the keynote address in the McKenna Leadership Centre Encounter.
Mr. Kielburger’s address is part of a two-day Service Learning workshop, Creating Tomorrow’s Leaders Today, taking place at StFX on Feb. 2-3, 2012.
His talk, Me to We: How Students Can Create Positive Social Changes, takes place at 7 p.m. in the Gerald Schwartz School of Business Auditorium. His talk is open to the public.
The Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership, opened on campus last May with Mr. McKenna and former U.S. President Bill Clinton in attendance, is designed to broaden the leadership environment that already exists at StFX by providing a global-based learning platform attracting emerging and established leaders on a national and international scale.
Dr. Sara Dorow, a service learning expert and associate professor of sociology at the University of Alberta, where she is also founder and academic director of the Community Service Learning Program, will help lead the workshop as it continues the next day, Feb. 3, with a full slate of panel presentations, scheduled from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Frank McKenna Centre for Leadership at StFX.
Each panel will run for 55 minutes. Faculty, staff, students, and community members are invited to participate in as many sessions as they wish.
“StFX is thrilled to have Craig Kielburger on campus. His style is perfectly aligned with our vision of what the McKenna Leadership Centre Encounter is all about,” StFX President Dr. Sean Riley said.
“We are also very proud to highlight our Service Learning Program, which was the pioneer service learning program in Canada.”
CRAIG KIELBURGER
Craig Kielburger co-founded Free The Children in 1995 at only 12 years of age. Today, he remains a passionate full-time volunteer for the organization, now an international charity and renowned educational partner that empowers youth to achieve their fullest potential as agents of change.
Free The Children delivers innovative programming to more than 3,500 youth groups and hundreds of thousands of young people in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. As the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, the organization has worked in 45 countries and built more than 650 schools and school rooms in developing regions, providing education to more than 55,000 children every day.
Free The Children has a proven track record of success, having formed successful partnerships with top school boards and leading corporations—including Oprah’s Angel Network, KPMG and Research In Motion.
Craig is also the co-founder of Me to We. An innovative social enterprise, Me to We provides people with better choices for a better world, including socially conscious and environmentally friendly clothes and accessories, as well as life-changing international volunteer trips, leadership training programs and materials, a speakers’ bureau and books which address issues of positive social change. In addition, half of Me to We’s net profit is donated to Free The Children, while the other half is reinvested to grow the enterprise and its social mission.
Each year, both Craig and Marc Kielburger organize Free The Children’s We Day, the organization’s signature domestic event which reaches 70,000 students in person and more than 5.4 million through televised broadcasts.
They share the stage, and their voices, with Nobel Peace Laureates, heads of state, celebrities, rock bands, actors and pop icons, including His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Former President Bill Clinton, Queen Noor of Jordan, Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Sir Richard Branson and many more.
Along with his brother Marc, Craig writes Global Voices, a weekly column about the pressing issues of our time, syndicated in the Vancouver Sun, Halifax Chronicle Herald, Edmonton Journal, Victoria Times Colonist, Waterloo Region Record, Winnipeg Free Press, Huffington Post and Huffington Post Canada online. Also, the Kielburgers are weekly Globe & Mail columnists for a weekly advice column “Ask the Kielburgers”.
Craig is also a New York Times bestselling author, who has written seven books.
Craig has a degree in peace and conflict studies from the University of Toronto and is the youngest-ever graduate of the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA program. He has received 10 honorary doctorates and degrees, The Roosevelt Freedom Medal, The World Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (often called the Children’s Nobel Prize) and is one of the youngest recipients of The Order of Canada. He serves on a number of boards and award committees, including the Board of Governors of Scouts Canada. Craig’s work has been featured on multiple appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, 60 Minutes and The Today Show; and in People, Time and The Economist.
DR. SARA DOROW
Dr. Dorow teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the fields of globalization, family, qualitative methods, and race and culture.
Her research has been on transnational adoption, critical pedagogy, and more recently, sociocultural issues in Alberta's oil economy. She holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant for the latter project entitled The Social Landscapes of Neoliberal Growth: The Case of Fort McMurray, Alberta.
Dr. Dorow is the recipient of the Confederation of Alberta Faculty Associations (CAFA) Distinguished Academic Early Career Award, which recognizes "outstanding contribution to the wider community beyond the university."
THE FRANK MCKENNA CENTRE FOR LEADERSHIP
The goal of the McKenna Centre for Leadership is to enhance the leadership environment that already exists at St. Francis Xavier University. Its aim is to deliver more international and more comprehensive in promoting leadership development, supporting experiential learning, and increasing opportunities for international student involvement through funding and cross-institutional coordination.
The StFX Service Learning Program has played, and continues to play, a key role in achieving such objectives. The purpose of this event is to provide participants with the chance to hear about, and discuss, the challenges and opportunities involved with experiential learning in all of its facets, and thus to conceptualize ways to further engage with place of service learning in the future of StFX, the Atlantic region, and in the national and international arenas of innovative pedagogy.