#346 Ben Keesey: Born Again—From Fame to Death to Real Life

The Next Chapter with Charlie

Show Notes

On today’s show we chat Ben Keesey, the Development and Partnerships Director for Richard Rohr’s Center of Action and Contemplation.

Before joining the CAC, Ben was CEO of a charity called Invisible Children, a remarkable organization whose mission was to save the lives of children in Africa who were being abducted, turned into child soldiers or sex slaves. The numbers are shocking… we are talking about more than 30,000 children in Uganda, the Congo, and Sudan.

A few statistics regarding Invisible Children:

• § Raised $50 MM.
• § Created a video proclaiming their cause against a war lord that was viewed by 100 million people in six days.
• § Built six schools.
• § From DC, the got a law passed that was signed by President Barack Obama for protection of African children.

Today we will talk about Ben’s work, his personal transformation, and his impact today at the Center for Action and Contemplation.

LINKS

Please enjoy and be deeply moved by the following two videos.

Kony 2012- this is the documentary film (29 mins) that went to 100M views in less than a week. It shares the culmination of eight years of our efforts and campaigns.

Kony 2012 Part 2- this is the follow-up film that Ben directed/narrated one month later that went deeper and responded to some of the backlash. (19 mins)