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Katie Gingerich

The Recurring, Slow-Burn Question: “Who, Me?”

Katie Gingerich 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. “If not you, then who?” I […]

Nithya Vemireddy

Making Sense of the World We Live In

Nithya Vemireddy in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 14, 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. Post-graduation, day 191. I was in […]

Simon Sizwe Mayson

Researchers as Changemakers: The Power of a PhD

Simon Sizwe Mayson in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 14, 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 lying on the floor of […]

Megan Simmons

Student Voices Unleashed – Activism as a Critical Part of Changemaker Education

Megan Simmons in Student Changemaker Stories Campaign • October 14, 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 was sixteen during the 2016 […]

Emily Lamb

October 2019 News U Can Use

Emily Lamb in News U Can Use, Uncategorized • October 1, 2019

2020 Exchange Presenter & Facilitator Application due in 10 Days! There is still time to share how you’re bringing changemaker education to life on your campus. The Exchange presenter and facilitator application is due October 10. Submit your presentation here. What’s Ahead for Youth (and the world)? Catalyzing transformational change is ahead. Meet one of the […]

Kristen Nixon

Tech and Changemaking Resources: Careers for Social Impact

Kristen Nixon in Tech and CM • September 17, 2019

Based on my experience with engineering in the first three years of my undergrad, I assumed that there was not much overlap between social impact and engineering and planned to be done with engineering as soon as I finished my undergrad. Luckily, I was wrong! Here is a small sample of companies finding ways to […]

Kristen Nixon

Tech and Changemaking Resources:  Societal impact + Ethics

Kristen Nixon in Tech and CM • September 17, 2019

As discussed in my original blog post, technology is an incredibly powerful force in shaping modern society, and the consequences of lack of ethical thinking amongst scientists and engineers can be staggering.  Scientists and engineers build things that deeply affect people on a large scale by nature of the profession, although it feels like more […]

Kristen Nixon

Tech and Changemaking Resources: For Students

Kristen Nixon in Tech and CM • September 17, 2019

Below we’ve compiled resources, events, and opportunities specifically deigned for students engaged in STEM fields. Resources Toolkit for infusing social impact into CS/STEM at your university Coding it Forward:  a student-led 501(c)(3) nonprofit empowering computer science, data science, and design students to create social good by breaking down the barriers to entry in social impact […]

Kristen Nixon

Tech and Changemaking Resources: For Professors + Universities

Kristen Nixon in Tech and CM • September 5, 2019

Universities have the power to touch students at a highly influential point in their lives and empower them to live their life and build a career in a way that makes world a better place.  Imagine the scale of impact of a professor over the span of their career if they left students simply with […]

Emily Lamb

September 2019 News U Can Use

Emily Lamb in News U Can Use • September 3, 2019

You’re Invited: Speak at the 2020 Ashoka U Exchange The presenter & facilitator application is now open for the 2020 Exchange, cohosted by the University of St. Thomas on April 16-18, 2020 in Minneapolis, MN. We invite you to share your insights, promising practices, and big ideas for the future of higher education. Read all about itand apply here. […]

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