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Kristi Wooten

Oct 4, 2016

Global Citizen Festival: Bands and Prime Ministers

The annual Global Citizen Festival encourages people to sign petitions and write to world leaders rather than swipe a credit card. Before...

Kristi Wooten

May 3, 2016

What Happened When Jimmy Carter and Bono Went to the Disco

Bono, Jimmy Carter and Nile Rodgers made for a surprising trio of revelers at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom last Friday night. On the...

Kristi Wooten

Dec 3, 2015

Can Miley Cyrus Educate Millennials About the Fight Against AIDS?

At Carnegie Hall this past Tuesday night, Miley Cyrus joined U2’s Bono and The Edge, Hozier and Jessie J for a World AIDS Day event...

Kristi Wooten

Jul 13, 2015

The Legacy of Live Aid, 30 Years Later

On July 13, 1985, Africa became a brand. The image of a starving Ethiopian girl named Birhan Woldu flickered across TV screens as Paul...

Kristi Wooten

Nov 18, 2014

The Original Recipe for "Do They Know It's Christmas?"

One of the driving forces behind the original Band Aid recording looks back 30 years. THREE decades before One Direction, Ellie Goulding...

Kristi Wooten

Apr 28, 2014

Jimmy Carter on Women's Rights: Presidential Decree

JIMMY CARTER, the 39th president of the United States, is known for staunch opinions on matters ranging from peace in Palestine to poetry...

Kristi Wooten

Jan 24, 2014

Angélique Kidjo's Memoir: About a Girl

ANGELIQUE KIDJO’S childhood in Benin was a whirl of different languages and cultural influences. Hers was a family that spoke French, Fon...