Matt Brightman - TEDxMcGill - The Framing of Art as an Economic Engine December 13, 2011

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Matthew Brightman, at 17, founded a "clandestine online news blog" responding to censorship of his high school newspaper where he served as Editor-in-Chief. The blog received 5,000 hits in one day and a mention in the Boston Globe. At 18, he co-founded the student media group Developing Pictures after traveling to Haiti to volunteer after the earthquake. In 2011, he co-founded Moral Fibers, an apparel company aiming to attack poverty through sustainable job creation. Moral Fibers now has 5 employees, supporting 15 artists in Haiti. Brightman is a Forces Avenir Laureate and a winner of McGill's Dobson Cup.

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