TEDxSantaCruz: Gina Castaneda - Uniting Rival Teen Gang Members Through Soccer
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As an adolescent, Gina Castaneda experienced intervals of homelessness and even lived in a car for a period of time with her mother. Despite the adversities of growing up in a violent neighborhood and a violent home, Gina avoided gang entrenchment. In April 2008, Gina founded the Aztecas Soccer Program for Latino juvenile probationers who affili... Read more
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Gina Castaneda - Uniting Rival Teen Gang Members Through Soccer
June 23, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)As an adolescent, Gina Castaneda experienced intervals of homelessness and even lived in a car for a period of time with her mother. Despite the adversities of growing up in a violent neighborhood and a violent home, Gina avoided gang entrenchment. In April 2008, Gina founded the Aztecas Soccer P...
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Nancy Abrams and Joel Primack - Changing The World Through A Shared Cosmology
July 8, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Nancy Ellen Abrams is a lawyer (J.D., U. of Michigan) with a B.A. from the University of Chicago in the history and philosophy of science. She specializes in the role of science in a new politics and is an award-winning writer and lecturer at UCSC. Joel R. Primack is Distinguished Professor of ...
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- -: TEDxSantaCruz: Roger McNamee - Disruption and Engagement
July 9, 2011 (almost 13 years ago)Roger McNamee is a co-founder of Elevation Partners, an investment partnership focused on the intersection of media and entertainment content and consumer technology. Roger performs 100 shows a year in the band Moonalice, where he plays bass and guitar. Moonalice pioneered the use of social media...
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- -: Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
January 12, 2007 (over 17 years ago)http://www.ted.com Rice University professor Richard Baraniuk explains the vision behind Connexions, his open-source, online education system. It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the ...
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