Unleashing the Talents of Teens: Mark Hecker at TEDxHGSE

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Michael Sanders

Official TEDxHGSE MC - Performer, publicist, communications and media advocate, Michael is a master's candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education concentrating in arts, education and media. He is also a research assistant at Sustain Arts, a research based data project based out of the Kennedy school's Hauser Institute for Civil Society.

Michelle Barmazel

Stanford Business School graduate and current Harvard KennedySchool MC/MPA Candidate shedding new light on gifted education.

Vanessa Beary

Doctoral candidate, Kauffman Dissertation Fellow, and Presidential Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Education interested in entrepreneurship education in developing countries with large youth populations.

Ebony Bridwell - Mitchell

Harvard University Assistant Professor interested in understanding how organizations work — their internal processes and how they produce the outcomes they do.

Antonio Buelher

Stanford Business School graduate, current Harvard School of Education MA Candidate and Founder of Peaceful Streets Project- an all-volunteer, nonpartisan, grassroots effort for police accountability.

Jonathan Chang

Harvard Kennedy School Mason Fellow passionate about entrepreneurship and social change.

Shawn Cheung

Harvard Kennedy School MPA candidate and Founder of Raising The Village, a non-profit organization that works with communities, for communities, by initiating sustainable recovery projects in some of the hardest-to-reach regions of Africa.

Amy Edmondson

The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School is well known for her work on teams.

Eliott Ephrati

The master's candidate for technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design is an accomplished violinist and inventor.

Annie Gaughen

The young adult author of the SCARLET trilogy and the Director of Girls' Leadership Boston GLOW is passionate about empowering teen girls.

Mark Hecker

Alumnus of the Harvard Graduate School of Education and founder of Reach Incorporated, a non-profit organization creating innovative after-school programs.

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