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Watch the talk: Tony Wagner recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade. Tony consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as...

Watch the talk: Read student Hannah’s account of the talk, “Greg Simon intrigues the mind of a keen adolescent.” Greg Simon has held senior positions in both chambers of Congress and the White House, been a senior strategy consultant to a variety of international technology CEO’s, led a national patient advocacy nonprofit he co-founded with Mike Milken and served as a senior executive at a large pharmaceutical corporation. He has...

Watch a highlight from the talk: Nicholas Kulish first moved to Berlin in 1995 as a college student studying abroad, at a moment in the city’s history of significant transition and upheaval but also creative freedom. He returned regularly to work on a literary journal known as Aussenseite des Elements, before moving back as a Fulbright Scholar in 2003. During that fellowship he wrote a satirical novel about the...

Listen to Lucy's talk  Lucy Alibar is a writer from the Florida panhandle. Her plays include "Juicy and Delicious" (Collective Unconscious/The TANK), "A Friend of Dorothy" (Avignon, Montreal Fringe), "Lightning/Picnic", "Mommy Says I'm Pretty on the Insides", and "Christmas and Jubilee Behold the Meteor Shower". She wrote her first screenplay, "Beasts of the Southern Wild" (an adaptation of her stage play, "Juicy and Delicious" in a Louisiana fishing marina with...

With a combined 45 years of experience in the field of reporting between them, BBC correspondents Richard Lister and Philippa Thomas are no strangers to the harsh realities encountered during the news gathering process. Lister and Thomas draw upon these experiences to help explain the role that citizen journalism has come to play in the 21st century media and to provide insight into the ethical and moral dilemmas they have...

Listen to BBC correspondents Richard Lister and Philippa Thomas explain the role that citizen journalism has come to play in the 21st century media and to provide insight into the ethical and moral dilemmas they have encountered while collecting footage for global coverage. Richard Lister has been a BBC journalist for twenty-five years and has reported in fifty countries. Lister files for television, radio, and the web, as well as...

Read about our students overcoming their nerves at the Gotham Comedy Club Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the original poets to appear on the HBO series “Def Poetry Jam.” A four-time National Poetry Slam champion, he is the author of two collections of poetry and a book of essays, “What Teachers Make: In Praise of...

Watch the talk: Read a post on the event by Media Specialist Lindsay Clark Yolanda Kakabadse was born in Ecuador in 1948. She studied Educational Psychology in the Catholic University of Quito. Her nexus with the environmental conservation movement officially began in 1979, when she was appointed Executive Director of Fundación Natura in Quito, where she worked until 1990. Ms. Kakabadse helped Fundación Natura become one of Latin America’s most...

Read a post related to the event Elected U.S. Soccer President in 2006 and re-elected in 2010, Sunil Gulati has more than 30 years of experience at all levels of soccer in the United States and has helped the sport rise to new heights. The native of Allahabad, India, has played an important role in the development of U.S. Soccer since the early 1980’s and has been intimately involved in...

Brigadier General Giselle M. Wilz assumed duties as the Commander and Senior Military Representative of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Headquarters in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in June of 2015.  In this capacity, she advises the local authorities on military aspects of security sector reform and commands North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces operating in Bosnia and Herzegovina.  This role includes working with the European Union Forces to ensure a stable...