I wanted to pass along this great article about ONE member Matthew McAllister published in the University of Colorado’s Campus Press. Matthew has been an active member of the ONE Campaign since high school and participated in last year’s ONE Campus Challenge (OCC), and we’re looking forward to him being a leader in this year’s OCC too. Matthew has also contributed to our ONE blog in the past, which you can check out here and here.

An excerpt from the piece below, full piece here

[The ONE Campaign] has since become McAllister’s passion and for the past three years he has been making changes across the nation to bring awareness to this campaign and its goals. McAllister has been a part of getting local leaders such as Gov. Bill Ritter involved with the campaign, successfully recruiting the Denver City Council to support the ONE campaign and passing a proclamation that declares CU a campus of ONE. The ONE CU student group is currently planning a signing ceremony for that proclamation to bring press attention to CU’s humanitarian values.

The ONE campus group was started by Erin Macdonald, a 21-year-old senior studying physics and mathematics. Macdonald had worked with the ONE campaign since it was created in 2005. She began the campus group in the fall of 2007, handing leadership over to McAllister in the spring of that same year.

“I think he’s one of those people that really cares about the cause,” Macdonald said. “He works hard to put together events and put the word out because he really believes in it. He’s a great leader.

All of this and McAllister hasn’t even celebrated his 20th birthday yet.