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Finding and Sustaining Your Mission | Harry Beard, Arifa Nasim and Reuben Selby
What's your fifty-year vision? What's a cause that might help you to bring that vision to reality? What are you learning along the way? Carmen leads a fantastic conversation with Harry, Arifa, and Reuben about their amazing work as young social entrepreneurs realizing their own visions for the future.
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Learning and Living Between Worlds | Watson Whitford and Kevin Belin
Watson Whitford and Kevin Belin from Navajo Prep join Robert Kelty to discuss how education and our elders strengthen culture, language, and life, with the example of Navajo Prep, an IB school, committed to building a strong foundation of Navajo philosophy and a holistic worldview that fosters intercultural understanding and respect in a global society (https://navajoprep.com/)
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Don’t Talk About Us and For Us, Talk to Us! | Diana Chao, Ziad Ahmed and Sara Mora
Diana Chao, Ziad Ahmed, and Sara Mora talk with the IB Director General, Olli-Pekka Heinonen, about the pressure and challenges on young people today and why it is essential that we support them to have the opportunity to tell their own stories and take action - however big, however small!
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The Voices of Diverse Young People Matter! | Ziad Ahmed
Ziad Ahmed kicked off the Festival of Hope Chicago with a plea to leaders everywhere to take the voices, hopes, and passions of diverse young people seriously. And to young people, you don’t have to be ‘everything’ - being and doing something, however big or small is good enough!
