"Activate: The Global Citizen Movement" is a six-part multi-platform documentary series for the National Geographic Channel. Each episode delves into a different issue connected to the root causes of extreme poverty, following a specific Global Citizen campaign and the organizers, amplifiers, grassroots activists, action takers and people whose lives are being changed. Episode topics include eradicating extreme poverty, ending cash bail, breaking down barriers to girls' education, funding education for displaced children, ending plastic pollution and helping solve the water crisis. The series features Hugh Jackman, Common, Usher, Rachel Brosnahan, Gayle King, Bonang Matheba, Darren Criss, Pharrell Williams, Uzo Aduba, Becky G, and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.
In this scene from the pilot episode in Mexico, Aurora shares how joining the women's' weaving collective "Vida Nueva" changed her life. Produced by Radical Media.