As co-founder of the social enterprise ME to WE, Marc is a charismatic leader who makes social entrepreneurship relevant and cool.
WE Movement in the USA, Canada, and the UK inspires future leaders through the WE Schools and WE Day programs.
Marc Kielburger co-founded ME to WE, which sold socially conscious goods and donated half the profits to WE Charity. Marc and his brother Craig also co-founded We Day, an international youth empowerment festival with over 200,000 participants held in large stadiums across Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
Initially called Free the Children, the international charity and educational partner WE Charity was also co-founded by Marc and Craig Kielburger.
Marc attended Brebeuf College School in Toronto, Canada, and Neuchâtel Junior College (Neuchâtel, Switzerland) in 1995.
As a 13-year-old young student in 1990, he volunteered for a program that allowed school credit to work at the hospice for teenage mothers and homeless older people who suffered from leprosy.
As a college student, Marc remained serious about his studies, earning a magna cum laude degree in International Relations from Harvard University.
He later received a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University to study law, with a concentration on human rights.
At the young age of 12, Craig Kielburger had an epiphany that children truly have the power to effect change. Inspired by the story of Iqbal Massih, a boy his age in Pakistan who had spoken out against child labor and was killed, Craig and his brother Marc Kielburger initiated a project that they called Free the Children.
The Kielburgers eventually grew the project into a group of organizations empowering others to make an impact on their communities and the world.
Watch Craig share on CNN how young people can help end Child Labor in 2019
Free the Children would eventually become WE Charity, but the organization saw success before changing its name. When the organization was still headquartered in the Kielburger family home, Craig and his brother sent a petition to have Kailash Satyarthi released from imprisonment.
Marc Kielburger fires up the crowd at a WE Day event in California: “Today we celebrate a generation of young people coming together at WE Day
Marc Kielburger and brother Craig Kielburger ask a WE Day audience of young people to take action: “The mission of the WE organization is making doing good doable.”
Marc Kielburger shares the story of how WE Charity learned about Minga, an Ecuadorian tradition of “coming together” for the greater good.