by Maggie Brawley | Jan 27, 2023 | Heartivist Of The Week
“The world was created with so much diversity; that is its beauty. If we were all the same, it would be boring… colorless. What makes it colorful is the different people we meet.” – Rebecca Olatunji Ayodele Rebecca, founder of the I Can Sign project in Nigeria,...
by Maggie Brawley | Nov 4, 2022 | Heartivist Of The Week
Animal welfare, rights, protections—which term is best, and how does one define it? The lines get convoluted, and the topic is controversial. Matilda, a postpartum pig, sparked much debate when she made international headlines last year as a commercial farm fugitive....
by Maggie Brawley | Oct 14, 2022 | Heartivist Of The Week
I always know I am conversing with an artist when the word “intention” comes up often. The creation process is the unfoldment of intention, a process Rachel Werner—an artist of various mediums and arts educator & activist—knows well. In 2019, she planted a seed as...
by Maggie Brawley | Sep 30, 2022 | Heartivist Of The Week
Far removed while deep in a rural village in Central Uganda, Kenneth Oroma—a then Teach for Uganda fellow—passed the time in the evenings by breaking out his ball for the few children that came to school that day. By the end of 2019, just three months into his...
