Winners Announced for the #MillionsofChangemakers award Jessica Lax in Best Practices • March 5, 2020 Ashoka U is excited to announce four winners and six semi-finalists for the #MillionsofChangemakers award. The award recognizes the initiatives that have the greatest potential to spark #MillionsofChangemakers if adopted across higher education. The award is a part of Ashoka U’s #MillionsofChangemakers campaign, launched with support from Schmidt Futures in Feb. 2019. As part of the campaign, leading […]
Walking the Walk Meets Social Entrepreneurship-Speak Mihai Patru in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 20, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. A year ago, I was talking […]
Celebrating UDEM’s Community of Student Changemakers Mitzi Elizabeth Gonazalez Medrano in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 20, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. You may have seen my friend […]
Studying Medicine, Practicing Changemaking Diego Carrión Alvarez in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 19, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. I remember the day so clearly: […]
Witnessing the Snowball Effect of Changemaking Isabel Miranda in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • November 19, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. They say hindsight vision is 20/20. […]
We are Rarely Born as Changemakers Jayden De Armas in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. The yellow sheet in my hand […]
My Hobby is Design, My Passion is Changemaking Yanniz Valadez Cortés in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. The questions running through my mind […]
From Patient to Advocate: A Changemaker by Chance Maya Pajevic in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 30, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. No one wants to become a […]
The Decade-Long Question that Brought Me to Watson Institute Bryan Nakambonde in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 22, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. I’m five years old during a […]
100 Interviews Later: How Do You Equip a Changemaker? Clément Moliner-Roy in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 22, 2019 This blog is part of Ashoka U’s Student Changemaker Stories: a campaign bringing together diverse student changemaker perspectives to shift the narrative around what it means to be a changemaker and who can be one – on campus and beyond. Each story concludes with a note of gratitude and call-to-action from the author. Many people across higher education are […]