Katrin Macmillan is the founder of a human rights organization called Projects for All. An innovative project called “Project Hello World” is helping to connect and bring education to millions of children without traditional resources.
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In this episode of A Congruent Life, Katrin shares about:
- the goals of Projects for All, and specifically what her organization is trying to accomplish with Project Hello World;
- deficits that she sees in traditional education models, and how Project Hello World is addressing them;
- how her original training in theatre became an ideal fit for working in the non-profit sector;
- wrestling up the confidence to shift the trajectory of her life;
- pushing up against a “fictional sense of meritocracy” and embracing the “joy of being useful”
- seeking balance between her work and other parts of her life, particularly with respect to her family; and
- discovering that the most authentic times of her life have actually been the times when she encountered the most resistance.