TEDx LakesideSchool

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"Rachel (Lakeside '90)serves as the President & CEO of the Center for Children & Youth Justice (CCYJ), leading communities, our state, and the nation in empowering children and youth, stabilizing families, and strengthening communities through meaningful and lasting justice reform. She is relentlessly committed to developing innovative and creative solutions that bring forth a new future for children, youth, and families for generations to come. With over twenty years of executive leadership experience in the non-profit sector and state government, she catalyzes stakeholders, partners, and the voices of those impacted by injustice and inequity to discover what's possible and create real and lasting change. Over the last ten years, Rachel’s work centered on advocacy, education, and systems reform, most recently as Senior Vice President of the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI), a national criminal justice non-profit advocating for safe, fair, and effective juvenile and adult pretrial practices. Prior to PJI, Rachel served as the Executive Director of YES Institute in Miami, Florida whose mission is to prevent su***de through communication and education on gender and orientation. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Emory University and has a Master’s degree in Counseling Psychology. Rachel is a graduate of Lakeside School’s Class of 1990. She was the recipient of the National Association of Social Workers "2014 Citizen of the Year" Award for Miami-Dade County, and currently serves on the Washington State Commission for Children in Foster Care."

MEET THE TEDXLAKESIDESCHOOL SPEAKERS!
"Dr. Briana Abrahms (Lakeside '04) is a wildlife ecologist with broad interests in spatial and behavioral ecology, global change biology, and conservation. She began her scientific career conducting behavioral observations on her pet dog Jake and cat Yunkie in 3rd grade. Many years later, she finds herself working on more slippery species under the ocean as a Presidential Management Fellow at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Berkeley’s Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management. Her research focuses on studying the effects of environmental variability and change on large vertebrate populations, particularly through the lens of large-scale animal movements in both terrestrial and marine systems. In this talk she will share about novel advancements in animal tracking technology that are allowing researchers to monitor changes in our ecosystems, for example due to climate change, in unprecedented ways."

MEET THE TEDXLAKESIDESCHOOL SPEAKERS!
"Olivia Wong is that short Asian Lakeside sophomore with shorter hair who rushes around campus in cat/pun/cat pun T-shirts and an overlarge Halloween-trench-coat-turned-signature-outfit. She loves knives, tangents, primitive nature skills (think friction fire), creation, science and rationality, knowledge, and fidgeting with anything. Because of this random unique taste for the somewhat unconventional and, most consequentially, a lack of taste for the conventionally feminine, she has a story to share about her adventuring through norms, misgendering, and identity that led to a jarring conclusion whose insight flipped her perspective on gender and her view of herself."

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"Ignorant. Uneducated. Mindless followers. Leading up to the 2016 election, in the period where Eman was beginning her own involvement in politics, she was constantly hearing people hurl these phrases at individuals from different political parties than their own. The line between disagreeing with someone’s ideas vs. disagreeing with someone’s identity was one that she found was constantly being blurred. However, this image of polarization didn’t match her own experiences of having political discussions. That’s why she founded the Purple America Initiative, a nationwide nonprofit program that connects high school students from across the country to have discussions about political issues. She will be talking about her journey to starting the organization and how she thinks these discussions can help the future of the US be less polarized."

MEET THE TEDXLAKESIDESCHOOL SPEAKERS!
"Dr. Edward Wenger (Lakeside '99) directs the IDM global health research program, which includes analyses related to malaria, HIV, TB, pneumonia, enteric diseases, and emergent pathogens. Before joining the disease-modeling program in 2011, Dr. Wenger managed the development, validation, and release of reconstruction and simulation algorithms for the heavy-ion project of the CMS experiment at CERN. He supervised the processing and distribution of a petabyte of data from the first heavy-ion collision run, and directed the planning and ex*****on of the first silicon-based analyses. Dr. Wenger graduated from Dartmouth College and received his Ph.D. in Physics from MIT."

MEET THE TEDXLAKESIDESCHOOL SPEAKERS!
"Sage K is a freshman at the University of Washington and former student at Lakeside School. He loves programming, math, statistics and data science. Specifically, these interests have combined over the last several years to form a deep interest in Artificial Intelligence. As someone who has been developing these technologies on a daily basis, Sage will be speaking about the AI Revolution, both the good, the bad and the ethics we must consider as this technology amplifies its impact on human life and society."

don’t forget that TEDx lakeside school is back! Come check us out this year :)

Tomorrow is the day! Can’t wait to see you all in Kent Evans Auditorium at 7pm!