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Announcing: Pathways for Peace Collaborative!
My true love is community organizing. My happy place is facilitating discussions around shared purpose and collective action. I love...


How We Work With Refugees
I was going to come out once, visit refugees, and help — even if in a tiny way — to tell their stories.


Ending Genocide with Empathy
Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from his/her position. It’s the capacity to place...


Disability Inclusion
iACT believes that disability inclusion is a priority. Why? There are 70 million refugees today, and 13.2 million of these refugees are...


Tanzania’s Burundian Refugees Reflect on Their Basic Needs
A letter from our friends in Tanzania, currently living in Nduta Refugee Camp.


New Partnerships: iACT & Plan International
An exciting new partnership between iACT and Plan International (Tanzania)


WHEN WE LET PEOPLE DIE
An excerpt from the essay collection, which explores the UN doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect.


Promising Practices in Refugee Education: Invest in Teacher Training
“Teachers are the most important school-based factor in determining the quality of education.”


iACT’s Impact toward the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals
iACT's programs may not have been an intentional response to the UN SDGs, but they certainly address many of them.


Promising Practices in Refugee Education: Learning and Well-being
Imagine being forced to flee your home—leaving behind your school, stability, and community; and losing family and friends—to start again...


Join us tomorrow: Promising Practices in Refugee Education Webinar
Join me tomorrow on a Promising Practices in Refugee Education Intervention webinar highlighting iACT’s early childhood education...


Tools of Empathy at the World Innovation Summit on Education
Last week, Gabriel and I headed to Doha, Qatar, for the World Innovation Summit on Education, otherwise known simply as WISE (check out...


Double Your Impact: Support Refugee-led Programs this #GivingTuesday
Lately, I’ve been getting this question quite a bit: “What makes iACT different?” I don’t have to pause or take a moment to think about...


Refugee Education Recommendation: Adopt user-centered design and empowering approaches
Recently, our early childhood education program, Little Ripples, was selected by Promising Practices in Refugee Education as one of...


Join iACT in honoring Girls around the world
Today, Wednesday, October 11, 2017, is International Day of the Girl. I’d like you to meet one of our Little Ripples students, Suraya....


Intern Spotlight: Julia Nuttall-Smith
Hi, my name is Julia and I have had the amazing opportunity to intern for iACT the past two summers. I live in Hermosa Beach, California,...


Intern Spotlight: Micaela Tomaro
My name is Micaela Tomaro and I am one of iACT’s interns this year! I am 17 years old and a rising senior at Mira Costa High School. I...


iACT Intern Spotlight: Liam Cook
Hi! My name is Liam Cook and I am 17 years old and a student at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, CA. I have been volunteering...


Meet Amalia Lohuis – our new intern!
My name is Amalia Lohuis, and I am a student embarking on my senior year at Mira Costa High School. Coming into high school I was...


Naomi Neuman – our new intern!
Hi there! My name is Naomi Neuman. I am originally from the South Bay area, born and raised in Torrance. I recently graduated from...
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