Global change has always started small.
Maryam Ishani Thompson
Is an educator by training with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in curriculum development from McGill and Columbia University, respectively, focusing on school systems fighting to protect and support children who are growing in conflict zones as victims of war or as child soldiers.
She has created educational curriculum for organizations like the United Nations, the Watchlist for Children and Armed Conflict and the International Rescue Committee serving communities in emergency situations, often war or natural disaster.
Her reporting on the preservation of culture, the arts, and school systems in areas of conflict has been published by Reuters, the Guardian, the BBC and Agence France-Presse. She is also the director of the feature-length documentary “Changing the World One Wall at a Time”, telling the story of the largest ever global street art campaign, a campaign that focused on the right to education.
She founded The Conscious Childhood to focus her experience on reinforcing resilience and community in children growing up in a modern world where opportunities to learn about empathy and justice are changing every day.