TEDxYSE – Youth Social Entrepreneurship

Shiv Bhaskar is the founder and creator of The Viewspaper, a youth journalism website for young people in India. Shiv was inspired to take action when he realized that his own daily experiences were quite different from the observations and discussions among media elites.  He wanted to speak out and share his thoughts, but no [...]

At the age of 23, Ben Lyon is pioneering technology that is connecting microfinance institutions to their borrowers via cell phones. After witnessing countries devastated through man-made strife and natural disaster, Ben began exploring how he could make a positive impact.
The result:  his vision to bring mobile banking to the microfinance world and his passion [...]

I’m thrilled to announce our second speaker for TEDxYSE and second winner of the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship Competition, Mohammed Barry from The Gambia. Mohammed is empowering marginalized and socially disadvantaged children and young people.

Rebecca Kantar is the first speaker selected from the Staples Youth Social Entrepreneurship competition! Rebecca is a founding member of Minga, a youth-run organization building a movement of young leaders dedicated to ending the global child sex trade.

Youth Venture’s Eden Full presents her venture, Dynamic Photovoltaics, which is developing a low cost tracking system for solar panels.

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