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Deepa Narayan | TED Speaker

Deepa Narayan is an international advisor on poverty, gender and development with more than 25 years of experience working at the World Bank, the UN and NGOs.
Social psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/deepa_narayan

TEDxGarki: GOOD GOVERNANCE VS INEQUALITY AND XENOPHOBIA - an independently organized event

About this event: Our theme this time is centered around the three big issues in Africa at the moment…. INEQUALITY is growing, so that is the problem. XENOPHOBIA is increasing, and that is the symptom… GOOD GOVERNANCE is much needed. That is the solution. So in short we have themed this; INEQUALITY, XENOPHOBIA AND THE CHALLENGES OF GOOD GOVERNANCE
Event details: MAITAMA ABUJA, Abuja Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria · May 28, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/13932

Could universal basic income end inequality? Maybe.

But these 3 alternative solutions could be faster ways to achieve increased opportunity, prosperity and equality. Universal basic income (UBI) is a provocative idea that’s enjoying a huge surge of attention right now. The concept is simple: a government would provide unconditional payments (proposed amounts range from $10,000 to $25,000 a year)...
Posted January 13, 2017
https://ideas.ted.com/will-universal-basic-income-end-inequality-maybe

What's to be done about rising inequality?

See all 8 articles in the series >>
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/whats-to-be-done-about-rising-inequality

LaToya Ruby Frazier | TED Speaker

LaToya Ruby Frazier focuses her camera lens on working class families, exploring themes of family, inequality, health care and environmental racism.
Visual artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/latoya_ruby_frazier

Robb Willer | TED Speaker

Robb Willer's political research has investigated various topics, including economic inequality, racial prejudice, masculine overcompensation and Americans' views of climate change.
Social psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/robb_willer

Darrick Hamilton | TED Speaker

Darrick Hamilton crafts and implements innovative routes and policies that break down social hierarchy and move society towards greater equity, inclusion and civic participation.
Stratification economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/darrick_hamilton

Kriti Sharma | TED Speaker

Kriti Sharma creates AI technology to help address some of the toughest social challenges of our time -- from domestic violence to sexual health and inequality.
AI technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kriti_sharma

Michelle Kuo | TED Speaker

Michelle Kuo believes in the power of reading to connect us with one another, creating a shared universe.
Teacher, writer, lawyer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/michelle_kuo

How economic inequality harms societies: Richard Wilkinson on TED.com

We feel instinctively that societies with huge income gaps are somehow going wrong. Richard Wilkinson charts the hard data on economic inequality, and shows what gets worse when rich and poor are too far apart: real effects on health, lifespan, even such basic values as trust. (Recorded at TEDGlobal 2011, July 2011, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Durat...
Posted October 24, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/10/24/how-economic-inequality-harms-societies-richard-wilkinson-on-ted-com

Richard Wilkinson | TED Speaker

Richard Wilkinson was one of the first people to train in epidemiology from a background in the social sciences rather than medicine.
Social epidemiologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/richard_wilkinson

Jess Kutch | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Jess Kutch is the cofounder of Coworker.org, a nonprofit that helps people join together to improve their jobs and workplaces.
Labor entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jess_kutch

Marily Oppezzo | TED Speaker

Marily Oppezzo studies how the movement of the body can affect the movement of the mind.
Behavioral and learning scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marily_oppezzo

Dana Kanze | TED Speaker

Dr. Dana Kanze is an assistant professor of organizational behavior at London Business School, where she applies behavioral insights to understand sources of labor market inequality.
Researcher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dana_kanze

Your weekend reading: A marathon to remember, income inequality a subway ride away

It's been a hard week for many Americans, as the Boston bombings continue to raise more and more questions. Here is some weekend reading as you await answers. A poignant ode to the city of Boston, its annual marathon and the victims of the April 15 bombings. [NY Review of Books Blog] Far, far away in another American city, income inequalit...
Posted April 19, 2013
https://blog.ted.com/2013/04/19/your-weekend-reading-a-marathon-to-remember-income-inequality-a-subway-ride-away

Vandana Singh | TED Speaker

An author of speculative fiction, professor of physics and interdisciplinary researcher, Vandana Singh is one of the four inaugural Climate Imagination Fellows.
Climate imagination fellow
https://www.ted.com/speakers/vandana_singh

How embroidery is helping women in Pakistan stand up to honor killings and inequality

Khalida Brohi (TED Talk: How I work to protect women from honor killings) grew up traveling between two very different parts of Pakistan: the bustling city of Karachi, where her parents moved so that she and her sisters could go to school, and a small village in Balochistan, where her family has its roots. Brohi got a modern education, and also ...
Posted October 9, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/how-embroidery-is-helping-women-in-pakistan-stand-up-to-honor-killings-and-inequality

TEDxHeriotWattUniversitySalon - an independently organized event

About this event: Join the TEDx Society for it's FINAL event, discussing the topic of income inequality. Existing and perspective members are welcome to attend this FREE event, all we ask is you bring some food to share during stimulating discussion. Please get in contact if you have any other questions!
Event details: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · March 27, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/29700

"We quite suddenly realized that we were looking at a general pattern": Q&A with Richard Wilkinson

In 2009, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett published the book The Spirit Level, making a bold case that economic inequality within a society, the size of the gap between rich and poor, has corrosive effects from the bottom of society right up to the top. Wilkinson spoke about their book and research this summer at TEDGlobal ...
Posted October 26, 2011
https://blog.ted.com/2011/10/26/we-quite-suddenly-realized-that-what-we-were-looking-at-was-a-general-pattern-qa-with-richard-wilkinson

TEDxRobbstown - an independently organized event

About this event: The first TEDx event held in Guyana was the TEDxRobbstown talk which was held on December 28th, 2015 at the Theatre Guild. The event featured speakers whose topics ranged from sexual and reproductive rights, decolonising Caribbean literature and the adverse effects of religious fundamentalism in Guyana/Caribbean. The common threads weaved throu...
Event details: Georgetown, Demerara-Mahaica, Guyana · December 28, 2015
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/13263

Anab Jain | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Anab Jain imagines and builds future worlds we can experience in the present moment. By creating new ways of seeing, being and acting, she inspires and challenges us to look critically at the decisions and choices we make today.
Futurist, designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anab_jain

Jody Williams | TED Speaker

Jody Williams won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to eradicate landmines. Now she’s teaming up with five other female peace laureates to empower women to fight violence, injustice and inequality.
Nobel peace laureate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jody_williams

TEDxSeptemvriskaSesijaSalon - an independently organized event

About this event: Global economic trends, the development and accessibility towards modern and sophisticated technology, also the dynamic way of life, these are all contributors towards the raging battle for the domination of resources and thus economic trends and economic fluctuations and thus the economic inequality. These and other questions will be discussed...
Event details: Скопје, Karpoš, Macedonia · May 25, 2016
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/19983

TEDxNYUShanghaiSalon: TEDxNYUShanghaiSalon 20201130 - an independently organized event

About this event: Edward Snowden once said that “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. A...
Event details: Shanghai, Shanghai, China · November 30, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/41526

TEDxNYUShanghaiSalon - an independently organized event

About this event: Edward Snowden once said that “Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. A...
Event details: Shanghai, China · November 29, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/41525

Married and working together to solve inequality: Bill and Melinda Gates at TED2014

Chris Anderson invited Bill and Melinda Gates to the TED2014 stage for what turned out to be a personal and charming Q&A. This is an edited version of that conversation. Anderson began with the provocation, "On the basis that a picture's worth a thousand words, I asked them to dig from their archive to explain what they've done." The firs...
Posted March 18, 2014
https://blog.ted.com/2014/03/18/married-and-working-together-to-solve-inequality-bill-and-melinda-gates-at-ted2014

TEDxAUP - an independently organized event

About this event: The idea of TEDxAUP is to look for solutions of current problems that the world already knows exist. As such problems we identify global warming, inequality (gender, racial, ethnic, social, etc.), the future of the arts and sciences as well as successful achievement of personal growth. We feel like our society has to confront all these issues, s...
Event details: Paris, Île-de-France, France · May 25, 2019
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/30664

TEDxUniGoettingen - an independently organized event

About this event: Have you ever thought about the impact of media on our emotional health? Or about the connection between slang and gender inequality? These are only some of the topics you would hear discussed during our next event. Our speakers will look beneath the surface of these complicated issues and offer you their perspectives and possible solutions. The...
Event details: Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany · November 16, 2018
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/30740

Powerful films from 5 young people: What health inequality looks like in the US

By Michael Painter.  For some of us, it's easy to choose to be healthy. We can’t control whether disease or accidents strike, but we can decide where we live and what we eat, as well as if, when and how much we’ll exercise. Some of us live in a culture of health — a time and place where, for the most part, we have the real hope and opportu...
Posted March 27, 2015
https://blog.ted.com/2015/03/27/powerful-films-from-5-young-people-what-health-inequality-looks-like-in-the-us

TEDxNyarugengeWomen: TEDxNyarugengeWomen 20201126 - an independently organized event

About this event: TEDx Nyarugenge Women will come at a critical timing when the world is grappling with covid19, climate change and other social upheavals such as the gender inequality, society injustices and systematic racism. TEDx is the right platform to organise and host speakers who shade light on some of the complex topics and issues and break them down for...
Event details: Kigali, Ville de Kigali, Rwanda · December 3, 2020
https://www.ted.com/tedx/events/39984
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