MINNEAPOLIS, MN (September 30, 2013) – Announced today, Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, Disney® Channel actress and musician Debby Ryan, America’s first teen girl group Fifth Harmony and E! News correspondent Jesse Giddings will be joining the Jonas Brothers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Martin Luther King III, Barbara Pierce Bush, Bridgit Mendler and other previously announced speakers and performers for We Day Minnesota on October 8 at the Xcel Energy Center. The event will be streamed live at www.wcco.com/weday and www.weday.com starting at 9:30 a.m. CT.
Debby Ryan and Jesse Giddings will also join Bridgit Mendler as the co-hosts for We Day, leading the electrified crowd of 18,000 students, teachers and supporters who will be inspired by renowned speakers and award-winning performers, including:
· Mark Dayton (@GovMarkDayton) – Governor of Minnesota
· Brenda Cassellius (@BCassellius) – Commissioner of Education, Minnesota
· Chris Coleman (@mayorcoleman) – Mayor of St. Paul
· Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan (@QueenNoor)
· Jonas Brothers (@jonasbrothers) – GRAMMY®-nominated, multi-platinum artists
· Carly Rae Jepsen (@carlyraejepsen) – GRAMMY®-nominated, multi-platinum singer-songwriter
· Fifth Harmony (@FifthHarmony) – America’s first teen girl group
· Debby Ryan (@DebbyRyan) – Disney® Channel actress and musician
· Bridgit Mendler (@bridgitmendler) – Platinum selling artist and star of Disney’s Good Luck Charlie
· Barbara Pierce Bush – Humanitarian, Co-founder and President, Global Health Corps and daughter of Former US President George W. Bush
· Jesse Giddings (@JesseGiddings) – E! News correspondent and Free The Children ambassador
· Demi Lovato (@ddlovato) – Award-winning singer-songwriter and Free The Children ambassador, joining via Skype for an important message
· Minnesota Vikings (@Vikings) – NFL players
· Martin Luther King III – Human Rights advocate and eldest son of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
· Mia Farrow (@MiaFarrow) – Award-winning actress, activist and United Nations ambassador
· The Tenors (@TenorsMusic) – Juno Award-winning, multi-platinum singers
· Katie Garfield (@KatieGarfield) – Singer-songwriter and actress
· Dessa (@dessadarling) – Doomtree Records recording artist, rapper, singer, poet, and essayist
· Jack Jablonski (@Jabs_13) – Local Benilde – St. Margaret’s teen who suffered a spinal cord injury during a hockey game
· Michelle Bergh – Miss Minnesota Pre-Teen
· We Day Minnesota co-chairs and siblings Hutton Phillips and Dean Phillips, who also serves as Chairman of Talenti Gelato and Co-Chair of the Edward J. Phillips Family Foundation
· Kenyan Boys Choir (@BoysChoirKenya) – Traditional African male choir, who sang at the 2009 inauguration of President Obama
· Marissa Mohammed – Youth speaker from the Banyan Community Center
· Native Pride Arts – Indigenous youth performers whose mission is to educate, inspire, motivate and empower diverse communities
· Craig and Marc Kielburger (@craigkielburger) – International activists and co-founders of Free The Children
· Spencer West (@spencer2thewest) – Me to We inspirational speaker, Free The Children ambassador, author and double amputee who climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro on his hands and in his wheelchair in June 2012
· Molly Burke (@mollymetowe) – Visually impaired Me to We motivational speaker who speaks out against bullying and the power of hope
· Youth speakers, Siddharth Paari and Hannah Alper
· Robin Wiszowaty (@robininkenya) – Me to We motivational speaker, author and Free The Children Program Director in Ghana and Kenya
· Chris Tse – Me to We inspirational speaker, national spoken word champion and humanitarian
We Day is a stadium-sized educational event and a movement of young people leading local and global change. We Day is tied to the year-long program, We Act, which supports students and teachers with free educational resources, student led campaigns and support materials to help turn the event’s inspiration into sustained activation. Since 2007, youth involved in the We Act program have raised $37 million for over 1,000 local and global causes and logged more than 9.6 million volunteer hours.
The 2013/2014 We Day season will be the largest season to date. We Day will see more than 160,000 in attendance in 12 cities across North America, and internationally for the first time with We Day UK in spring 2014, truly making this a global movement for change.
We Day and the We Act program are free of charge to the thousands of students and teachers in attendance at the event and state-wide, thanks to the generous support of sponsors led in Minnesota by Title Sponsors Cheerios, Green Giant and Yoplait along with other supporters, including Bremer Bank, the Otto Bremer Foundation, The Edward J. Phillips Family Foundation and the Carlson Family Foundation.
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· Facebook: www.facebook.com/weday
· Twitter: @craigkielburger @freethechildren #WeDay #Minnesota
· Visit: www.weday.com
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