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Margie Dillenburg Highlight
About Margie
- Going into college, I didn’t have an end goal career-wise, so I decided to just study things that were fascinating to me—this eventually led to me majoring in peace studies and minoring in ceramics.
- After graduating, I went to a couple of interviews with consultancy groups and quickly decided that a big corporate job was not for me.
- I was inspired by a friend to become a teacher—we moved out to California to teach under the direction of a man who wanted to start a school, but the whole thing ended up being a scam.
- Fortunately, the University of San Diego decided to help train us to become teachers, and I was able to get my teaching credential.
- I worked as a middle school teacher by day and then continued to take classes at night, which led to me earning a master’s degree in leadership studies.
- After I quit teaching, I reached out to the founders of Invisible Children to see if they needed help—their organization aims to free children forcibly recruited by armed forces in Central Africa.
- Invisible Children asked me to join their staff as one of their starting members—I'm now the chief operations officer and movement director, overseeing all of the organization’s domestic operations.
