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I'm passionate about

Language! Inclusion & empowerment of under-served people, cross cultural storytelling, assembling groups across geographies & cultures and above all, empowering women and telling our stories.

An idea worth spreading

Nearly half of the 6000 languages in the world are not spoken by the children. It is no longer simply good business for companies and multi-national organizations to adapt their products and stories to local cultures...it is increasingly, a moral imperative.

Each year, 26 elders die, taking with them the last of a culture's oral history (see Phil Borges' talk!). We MUST move away from the myth of "going global" because the world is "shrinking", and start accepting the responsibility of preserving the linguistic diversity of our world, and the cultural depth contained within it. I propose to you a movement away from going global, and instead an imperative to GET LOCAL.

Talk to me about

What helps you connect with people of radically different cultures, religions, traditions? What do you think it takes for people to transcend their own experience and connect in a meaningful way?

People don't know that I'm good at

Dancing salsa, telling stories, taking pictures.

Comments

• TEDCred score: +20 TEDCred reflects your contribution to the TED community.

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  A reply on Talk: Isabel Behncke: Evolution's gift of play, from bonobo apes to humans

  Apr 8 2011: Absolutely NO APOLOGY needed! Remember that malcontents are always more vocal than fans. Your background speaks for itself, you are a serious scientist who can afford to do the most challenging thing of all, to make the complex simple. Your style was elegant and perfectly appropriate for the format provided, please do more!
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  A reply on Talk: Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

  Dec 27 2010: I'd say these are sadly self serving views, women being in the workforce (especially when they're not making it into the leadership ranks) and entering a system that values masculine values and encourages their mastery in order to succeed, is hardly what's needed to have a diversity of values in the workplace (or to change it's shape). Just as the south being full of African slaves hardly made the south a more friendly place for Africans, women being in the workplace (but not in positions of influence) hardly means the workplace is friendly to women.
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  A reply on Talk: Sheryl Sandberg: Why we have too few women leaders

  Dec 27 2010: I belive her message was intended for those women choosing to stay in the workforce, which she acknowledged was not everyone's choice. Also if business adapts to being more conducive to the needs of all family members (including the men who are co-running the household with their partners), then succeeding in business may no longer require the kind of sacrifices that any good parent would hate to make. I think part of this conversation is refuting some of the sacrifices that have come to be seen as just "part of the deal" if you want to be successful.
  
  Women on top should mean the top starts to change it's shape and hue...it will only happen if we get there though, and of course if we get there, we have to be committed to changing it and turning it upside down.
  
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• A comment on Talk: Halla Tomasdottir: A feminine response to Iceland's financial crash

  Dec 9 2010: Fascinating experience, feminine values are sorely missing in business on a global scale, wonderful to see a growing case for why it's not just the right thing to do, it's also good for the bottom line (profit), as well as people and the planet.
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  A comment on Talk: Tony Porter: A call to men

  Dec 9 2010: Wow, Tony....pardon my french, but you are a brilliant, brave and FUCKING awesome man. Standing ovation much deserved.

• A reply on Talk: Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

  Nov 29 2010: Axel, all I can say is BRAVO, and thank you for saying what more people should be tattooing on their foreheads: "the 'feminine' is in every man" :-)
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  A reply on Talk: Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

  Nov 27 2010: It's not about better/worse, it's about statistical facts and on the ground experience by NGO's around the world who find that a larger % of ever dollar spent on a woman is used to benefit her entire community, than the same dollar invested on a man. Read Kristof, or the bevy of other writers on the subject, this is not news.
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  A reply on Talk: Zainab Salbi: Women, wartime and the dream of peace

  Nov 27 2010: It is quite simple to throw out an entire school of thought (that advocates equal rights for women) rather than to to look at a woman as a human being with ideas that you are free to agree/disagree with, just like anyone else. Simple minded, that is.
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  A reply on Talk: Wade Davis: The worldwide web of belief and ritual

  May 18 2009: To presume isolation and ignorance is an interest leap with which to even begin your commentary. I regularly meet with american executives who seem far more disconnected and ignorant of the world around them than any of these 'ignorants' as you call them.
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  A comment on Talk: Mae Jemison on teaching arts and sciences together

  May 5 2009: Fabulous, my favorite quote from this, "Science provides an understanding of a universal experience, and arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience." Love it!