Sebastian Lindstrom
GET UPDATES FROM Sebastian Lindstrom
 
Sebastian is an experienced traveler and filmmaker. He is the co-founder and chairman of Light For Children, an NGO working with HIV-infected children in Ghana, and co-founder / action tanker of the What Took You So Long Foundation, which films unsung issues around the world. Currently Sebastian is based in Nairobi setting up Africa's first Sandbox hub and finalizing a 20-country documentary on the emergence of camels and camel milk as a force for change in the world.

Blog Entries by Sebastian Lindstrom

How To Miss Your Flight

0 Comments | Posted March 7, 2012 | g:i A

A wave of dread washed over me as I scrambled to get dressed, screamed at my friend to call a cab and then prepared myself mentally for an upcoming epic failure. I had 30 minutes to catch a flight to Latin America. As I looked at my phone and realized...

Read Post

Sandbox 2012: Why 200 Trailblazers Gathered in Lisbon

1 Comments | Posted February 2, 2012 | g:i A

The Sandbox Global Summit kicked off this year's summit season for me. The Summit Series had their 500 person-strong Basecamp gig in Squaw Valley, which will be followed by Kairos Global Summit in New York. The Sandbox event was live for just 72 hours...

Read Post

TEDxAthens 2011 -- What Took You So Long to Make Films Disruptive?

1 Comments | Posted January 30, 2012 | g:i A

Now in its 3rd year, TEDxAthens is the second biggest of the 2700 independently organized TED events that are organized around the world. Bringing some much-needed positive energy to a country wracked by economic woes, the theme of this year's TEDx event was disruption. From politics to storm...

Read Post

African Leaders Unite in Addis Ababa

0 Comments | Posted November 2, 2011 | g:i A

"If you don't participate we become consumers of other people's ideas" -- these words from HRH King Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi, King of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, echoed strongly throughout the Sheraton's ballroom where the cream of African potential, hope and change-making strength were seated for the...

Read Post

Summit at Sea: Breeding Collaboration and Breaking Down Convention

0 Comments | Posted April 20, 2011 | g:i A

At a spring break on overdrive, where "every one of you is a Clark Kent," Barack Obama's philanthropic adviser was in search of the future. Summit co-founder Justin Cohen told the crowd that his team had "created a social sculpture." Their proverbial clay consisted of 950 hyperactive people,...

Read Post