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Liz Murray. Elizabeth Murray (born September 23, 1980) is an American memoirist and inspirational speaker who is notable for having been accepted by Harvard University despite being homeless in her high school years. [ 1][ 2] Her life story was chronicled in Lifetime 's television film Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003). [ 3]
Erin Gruwell (born August 15, 1969) is an American teacher known for her unique teaching method, which led to the publication of The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them (1999). The 2007 film Freedom Writers and the 2019 PBS documentary Freedom Writers: Stories from the ...
Ron Clark. Ronald Lyle Clark, Jr. (born October 24, 1972) [ 1][ 2] is an American educator and reality television personality. He has taught in North Carolina and New York City; later in life, he founded the Ron Clark Academy in Atlanta, Georgia. Clark is a New York Times bestselling author and motivational speaker on the topic of inspiring ...
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www .ted .com /speakers /chris _anderson _ted. Chris Anderson (born 1957) is a British-American businessman who is the head of TED, [ 1] a non-profit organization that provides idea-based talks and hosts an annual conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Previously he founded Future Publishing. He is also the founder of video game ...
See also References External links A Speaker Talk(s) Wajahat Ali The case for having kids (TED2019) Trevor Aaronson How this FBI strategy is actually creating US-based terrorists (TED2015) Chris Abani Telling stories from Africa (TEDGlobal 2007) On humanity (TED2008) Hawa Abdi Mother and daughter doctor-heroes (TEDWomen 2010) Marc Abrahams A science award that makes you laugh, then think ...
TED Conferences, LLC ( Technology, Entertainment, Design[ 7]) is an American-Canadian non-profit [ 7] media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading". [ 8] It was founded by Richard Saul Wurman and Harry Marks in February 1984 [ 2] as a technology conference, in which ...
Lyiscott gave a TED talk in 2014, "3 ways to speak English", about her experience of being disrespected as a speaker of Trinidadian and Black American English. [2] This talk has been viewed more than 5 million times. [5] She gave TEDx talk "Why English Class is Silencing Students of Color" in 2018. [6]