TEDxYouth@StJohnsUniversal

Speakers

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• Lakshmi Krishnan

  Lakshmi Krishnan is a passionate orator, published essayist, and served as the Media Committee Captain of St. John’s Universal School. A dynamic communicator, she has earned accolades in elocution, drama and creative writing, including publication in Inner Reflections for her award-winning essay in the Spiritual Connect International Competition. Lakshmi has secured top positions in inter-school, national and international speech and writing contests, voiced prestigious events like the Zayed Awards, anchored and organized numerous school programs, and has won academic awards. With a deep love for words and performance, she tries to blend leadership, creativity and authenticity in every role she takes on.

• Zion Kashyap

  Zion Kashyap is a passionate singer and artist, he has specialised in singing multiple western styles and genres some being jazz, RnB and musical theatre. He is also perfecting his skill in realism and portraiture. He has made 64 art pieces since 2021 and has sung in multiple assemblies and competitions alongside making song covers on Youtube. His first ever cover being done when he was 4 nearing 5 when he sang let it go from frozen, following this a couple years later was his cover of haw far I’ll go from Moana and his most recent cover in the lockdown being, Everytime we say goodbye by Ella Fitzgerald. He also has professional experience singing the Hindi dubs for songs in finding dory and the live action adaptation of Pinocchio by Disney. He was also a background singer in the Hindi dub of Scrooge: A Christmas carol. Aside from singing he also has professional work experience in dubbing in commercials with his most notable one being when he voiced the kid character in the Mother’s Magic biscuits advertisement. Accomplishments