“Juliet Lubwama is a senior at the Downingtown STEM Academy. She serves as a 2017 National Student Poet for the Northeast, along with four other high school students in different regions. Through her poetry, she discusses the different struggles people face in life.” Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
“Dr. Morley discusses the intersection of structural inequality, the cycle of violence, and the impacts of violence on the brains of both members of impoverished communities and the law enforcement officials policing these communities. Dr. Morley explains how compassion based interventions alleviate the impacts of the cycle of violence on the brains of community members…
“Everyone will walk away from this talk knowing something about privilege! Often times the thing that separates us from other people is the way we are viewing ourselves. What if we could all come together by viewing ourselves in a different way? Mike tells us how to come together in power! Michael Yates has been…
“Think about disposability in the context of plastic water bottles and cheap clothing, and what that’s doing to our planet. Now think about disposability in the context of lives and people and what seeing one another as “disposable” – as having no value, no purpose – is doing to our humanity. At some level, these…
“As an attorney who fights for the rights of the LGBT community among the agriculture community of Salinas, Lisa dispels myths about immigration, sexual orientation, and human rights. Ever since Lisa Cisneros was young, she’s wanted to advocate for people. Lisa’s passion is working with the LGBTQ community in rural, low-income, immigrant communities of California….
“Zachary shares how his grandfather helped him learn to see from multiple angles and learn from those not like himself. His talk helps us understand why in this day and age we should be willing to listen to those we disagree with. Zachary R. Wood is a Robert L. Bartley Fellow at The Wall Street…
“This talk is about inequality in American and inequality in the American educational system. After experiencing what it was like to go to a privileged educational background and transitioning to an underprivileged background, I find it of upmost importance to talk about these issues. My personal experience in the classroom, along with my experience in…
“How do refugees feel when they are finally safe in a new environment, but the war continues in their heads? How do they cope with living a normal life again while family and friends back home are still at risk of dying? How can they try the road to success again after losing everything they…
Music of all genres is Darian “Voodoo Child” Bethea’s dream sequence for his life. It was never about just spinning records, but making people live out their lives to, through, or with music. Music of all genres is Darian’s dream sequence for his life. It was never about just spinning records, but making people live…
“What could life be like if people weren’t trained to believe that lack of money made them inferior? If culture and collaboration were viewed as enough to not only rethink communities, but also invest and rebuild them? What if, just for a moment, we stopped telling ourselves that it costs too much to change our…