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Lakeside High School
3801 Briarcliff Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30345
Atlanta, Georgia, 30345
United States

Bailey Conn

Activist and Student

Meet Bailey Conn, a junior at Lakeside and our first speaker! Her talk will discuss the secrets of the meat and dairy industries not only from an ethical standpoint, but also from an environmental one! Come hear her ideas about animal rights and awake the activist in all of us.

Celeste Chapman

writer and student

Meet Celeste Chapman, a junior at Lakeside and our fourth speaker! Her talk will explore the issue of why there is a noticeable racial divide between classes of different academic levels. Come hear her discuss the nature of being oblivious to the obvious and whether our path to let this remain a systematic problem will continue.

Fahad Paryani

student

Meet Fahad Paryani, a senior at Lakeside and our third speaker! His talk will raise attention to the new field of Neuroethics and how it is going to impact our society as our understanding of the brain increases. Come hear him speak about the exciting, yet controversial idea of Neuroethics.

Hamza Rahman

Student

Meet Hamza Rahman, a senior at Lakeside and our fifth speaker! His talk will discuss the repeated rise of populism in our society. Come hear him talk about populism, not simply as a right-wing or left-wing movement, but a powerful force with many unexpected causes.

Sophie Page

student

Meet Sophie Page, a freshman at Lakeside and our sixth speaker! Her talk will discuss how social media affects the everyday lives of high schoolers (by a high schooler). Come hear her take on how there may be more to social media than all of the negatives we ever so often hear from adults.

Victoria Smith

Student and poet

Meet Victoria Smith, a junior at Lakeside and our second speaker! Her talk will discuss incorporating spoken word into the high school curriculum and generalizing communication and vulnerability amongst the people. Come hear her ideas about bringing the poets out of teens without creating the next Shakespeare.

Zoe Weiss

student

Meet Zoe Weiss, our seventh speaker! Her talk will explore what the often used phrase, antibiotic resistance, really means. Come hear her discuss the global phenomenon of these resistant bacteria and how it affects you and is jeopardizing your medicine.