TEDx Organizers

Education

Sharing ideas with others and collaborating for the benefit of our community and the world.

Volunteering and Helping Others - While most people are just starting their day, I have already been working for hours, delivering food bank boxes to needy senior facilities, picking up discarded groceries from local stores, and returning to the staging station at my food pantry so I am ready when the gate opens. When the coronavirus prohibited many of my academic and athletic opportunities, I sought the opportunity to help the community I saw struggling, and began working at the West Valley Food Pantry. With an extreme increase in clients starting in April, the pantry shifted its system to a drive-through, with volunteers such as myself safely putting food boxes in their trunks. The pantry is dependent on young volunteers like myself, as much physical labor is required to move pallets of food from storage to the distribution station and back. Sadly, there is a lack of volunteers due to the virus so I recruited and organized some friends to either donate or volunteer at the pantry.

anything creative - from great ideas and concepts to artwork, screenplays to filming, designing, Ocean conservation work

Getting philanthropic projects from strategy to results, growing people and capabilities along the way. I love open minded curiosity, social technology tools, developing nonprofit tech solutions, being outdoors, hiking, kayaking and having great conversations.

Exploring and learning about new methodologies and perspectives to approach emerging social problems. Managing and working with intercultural and diverse teams.

Doing something to really get things started towards an environmentally and socially sustainable future.