Charlie is a senior at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, KY and has been organizing around social justice issues since high school. As part of the original leadership team of the WKU chapter of AIDemocracy founded in 2007, he has organized against poverty and hunger, run voter registration drives, lobbied on legislation to end poverty and provide primary school education around the world, and helped win the ONE Campaign Campus Challenge & the title of “Most Globally Active and Aware Campus in the nation” for WKU. Charlie has also served as a Campus Outreach Ambassador for the ONE Campaign and as an Oxfam America CHANGE Leader. He is very interested in the role in which Social Media can affect change, help organize movements, and build a better world. He is most interested in issues of Global Development, and will be focusing a lot on the move to reform US Foreign Assistance this year.
Charlie Harris – Midwest Regional Coordinator
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Advocacy in Action, Farm Animal Stunt at the MDG Summit
So this past weekend I had the privilege of traveling as part of the AIDemocracy delegation to the Millennium Campus Conference in New York City, which coincided with the important Millennium Development Goals Summit happening at the UN. The conference brought together young activists around advocating for the achievement of the MDGs by 2015. We heard from an impressive array of NGO leaders and powerful speakers, but the most engaging moment for me came outside of the conference itself. Myself and two others in the AIDemocracy delegation had the … [Read more...]
WKU "Hilltoppers" Advocate for Jobs, Development, and SKA in Africa
In my previous post I introduced you to our AID Chapter at Western Kentucky University, and told you about our work on Foreign Assistance Reform. I failed to mention our other large focus this past semester, how silly of me! This Spring we worked with a Professor, Dr. Saundra Ardrey, to create a course called "Grassroots Resistance in the 20th/21st Century." We used the course to explore previous methods of grassroots organizing and change to enhance our organizing for the future. While we initially set out to have the class deal with foreign assistance … [Read more...]
WKU AID Advocacy Results in Co-sponsorship Victory
Hello all! My name is Charlie Harris. I am a junior at Western Kentucky University and an AIDemocracy Regional Coordinator for the Central Region (MN, WI, MI, IL, IN, OH, KY, TN, AR, LA, MS, AL). Though I've been working with the AIDemocracy network for over two years now, this is my first time to blog for The World InSight. WKU AID has had an awesome year this year, and I wanted to take a few minutes to share one of our successes. This year, we decided to focus our chapter energies on the issue of modernizing US foreign assistance. Though the US is … [Read more...]
