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 […]
Innovation as Spectacle Ashlee Tuttleman in Changemaker Campus • September 13, 2012 Innovation is breaking free of the status quo. It’s a new approach to a problem or opportunity, re-envisioning a process or identifying a new target market. The crux of innovation is creativity. But how is it practiced, or inspired? This was my scholars’ summer challenge in ThinkImpact’s Innovation Institute. The Innovation Institute brings university students […]
Changemaker Day at ITESM Campus Guadalajara Michèle Leaman in Changemaker Campus • May 4, 2012 Ashoka U’s newest Changemaker Campus, ITESM Guadalajara is finding new and better ways of inspiring students to think of social problems as opportunities to create change. Last week the campus hosted the very first Changemaker Day, an event that gathered students and faculty from the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Division, as well as Ashoka Fellows. This […]