Leyla Jafarli

Brainstormer, Designer, Entrepreneur, Event planner, Explorer, Idea generator, Musician, Performer, Project manager, Student

I'm passionate about organizing new and socially beneficial projects for both my community and building creative educationally or culturally concerned activities for youth, outside my local community.

Debates and round table discussions, Graphic Design, Project Management

In my rising senior year, while doing a research about schools reflecting the creative potential of youth, I found a TED Talk on the YouTube channel of TED called "How Schools Kill Creativity", which helped me a lot to both prepare a good paper and broaden my mental horizon about the specific topic. After that I read more about TED, and TEDx and got information about it. Then in my EAPP (English for Academic Purposes Program) year at ADA University, I had an instructor Mr. Joseph Oliphant, who was giving listening and speaking assignments from TED talks. There were several talks that inspired me and my classmates a lot, which led to great discussions. Afterwards, I started watching more TED talks, outside the class, recommended some of them to my instructor and discussed about some more topics. Now I want everyone to be inspired, motivated and informed by the experiences or ideas of other people and to be willing to spread their own ideas throughout the world.