Empowering Survivors of Genocide

Rebecca Tinsley has spent her career campaigning for human rights in some of the world’s most vulnerable regions. She is the founder of the Waging Peace and Network for Africa charities. She was at Anacapa for a special Open Breakfast Club to share her passion for affecting change in Africa. She brought her novel, “When The Stars Fall To Earth,” which is based on her interviews with survivors of Genocide in Darfur.

After an eye-opening Breakfast Club presentation, Rebecca turned to the students for questions. As usual, Anacapans had some fantastic follow-up inquiries for her. She commented at the conclusion of the presentation that Anacapa students had the best and most thoughtful questions of any student group she has spoken to, including university level audiences:

It was a pleasure to attend your Breakfast Club because your students are so exceptionally bright and well-informed. I speak in many schools and colleges, and often I am bewildered by how ignorant kids are, despite all the information at their fingertips. But whatever you and your team are doing at Anacapa School, please keep doing it. You are clearly developing the inquiring minds and critical faculties that our democracy and freedom depends on. But more than that, your students are engaged and compassionate. They are a credit to you. – Rebecca Tinsley

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