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TEDxYouth: Youth Empowerment

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Youth Empowerment

Featured Speakers:

  • Master screenwriter Mark Bomback (Wolverine and the Planet of the Apes)
  • Justice reform advocate Jeffrey Deskovic (falsely convicted and spent 16 years in prison)
  • Videogame designer Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia)
  • University of Michigan law professor Margo Schlanger (conducting research on troubled institutions) 
  • Immigrant rights lawyer Karin Anderson Ponzer (director of Neighbors Link Community Law Practice)

Our speakers emphasize the theme of Youth Empowerment and seek to educate the next generation in creating a better future for our society. Q&A and book sale/signing to follow.

TEDxYouth@Chappaqua is an independently organized and student-led TED event.