{"id":12169,"date":"2024-03-06T09:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/?page_id=12169"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:58:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T14:58:05","slug":"craig-kielburger","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/honorary-degree-guidelines-and-nominations\/craig-kielburger\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Kielburger"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Craig Kielburger\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"160\" height=\"196\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Craig-Kielburger-160x196.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Craig-Kielburger-160x196.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/187\/Craig-Kielburger.png 183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 160px) 100vw, 160px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Kielburger was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of exemplary leadership in the promotion of rights of the child and promotion of ethical living and social responsibility.\u201d<br>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craig Kielburger co-founded Free The Children in 1995 at only 12 years of age. Free The Children delivers innovative programming to more&nbsp;than 4,000 youth groups and hundreds of thousands of young people in<br>\nCanada, the United States and the United Kingdom Today, he remains a passionate full-time volunteer for the organization, now an international charity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Kielburger and his brother Marc also co-founded Me to We. An innovative social enterprise, Me to We provides people with better choices for a better world, including socially-conscious and environmentally-friendly clothes and accessories, as well as life-changing international volunteer trips, leadership training programs and materials, a speakers bureau, and books which address issues of positive social change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has received many honours, including the Roasevelt Freedom Medal, the World Children\u2019s Prize for the Rights of the Child (often called the Children\u2019s Nobel Prize) and&#8217;is one of the youngest recipients of the Order of Canada. He has received 10 honorary degrees in recognition of his dedication to education and youth.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\"><div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button left\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dgGki9EAU0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WATCH THE AWARD CEREMONY OF Craig Kielburger<\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Kielburger was awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, at the 2 p.m. ceremony on Wednesday, June 6, \u201cin recognition of exemplary leadership in the promotion of rights of the child and promotion of ethical living and social responsibility.\u201d Craig Kielburger co-founded Free The Children in 1995 at only 12 years of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":340,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cu_dining_location_slug":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_page_type":[],"class_list":["post-12169","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12169"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12301,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12169\/revisions\/12301"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_page_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/senate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_page_type?post=12169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}