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Session: Teach the Future Young Voices Network

Type: Panel

There are many young people around the world showing tremendous insight into the world around them, and the challenges faced by their communities. We found the need to recognize and celebrate the next generation of changemakers who are taking action and leading the way to change and create a more sustainable world. As you know, Teach the Future organized a panel of young voices last year expressing their desires for a better future. This is our continued intention to promote futures thinking including the voices and ideas of the younger generations.The NGFP - YV allowed young voices to be at the forefront of changemaking during unprecedented times of change, uncertainty, and disruption. Problems like poverty and climate change require a common understanding of foresight and taking action as a collective society. The NGFP - YV awards highlighted young voices that are willing to push past the perceptions of society to solve the problems of tomorrow. By understanding other perspectives and launching youth-led solutions, we are pushing for a more collective future rather than a singular future. We are “Shifting from Me to We” by including our youth voices who are working on projects in different parts of the world to better the communities we all live in.

Presenters

Deona (USA) (she/her)

Youth Intern at TTF

I am Deona, a Youth Intern at TTF in charge of expanding the youth network and its impact on futures literacy. I applied to the NGFP-YV awards and placed in the top 10 award winners. With this project, TTF found that the future holds many problems that need to be solved and the input and solutions of young voices need to be addressed, not just adults, policy makers, and older demographics.

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Amna (Pakistan) (she/her)

Founder, Global Creative Hub

Amna is a 15-year-old Pakistani, founder of Global Creative Hub, international speaker with more than 50K views, STEM enthusiast, and an advocate for girls education and digital literacy. Recipient of Young Achiever Award & runnerup for Young Voices Award, featured by UN & Malala Fund, spoken at World Bank, UNESCO, IFC, and more; she is passionate about using digital for social good and the UN SDGs.

Ruhan (Finland) (he/him)

I am an exitable passionate 17-year old youth, with much interest in debate, politics, and multicultural communication. Being one of the only international students in a small town in Finland, I have understood what it means to represent both myself and my community. With a strong base in debate and communication, I have worked to represent immigrant and low-icome youth in my city, and facilitate debates with youth all across the world to discuss global challenges through the UN SDGs. I am grateful for all the opportunties I have recieved in my pursuit of lifelong education, intercultural dialoge and study of the international world.

Andrés (Colombia) (he/him)

Junior member of WFSF. 7th grade high school student.

Andrés Is a 7th grade high school student in Medellín - Colombia, and a Junior member of the World Futures Studies Federation. He is passionate about future and prospective studies, the exact sciences, the care of the environment, the planting of trees, unconventional energies, water care and sustainable economic systems. Andrés has obtained school awards for his academic excellence and for his leadership as a mediator, student delegate, and as elementary class president of school. He has participated in conferences, including the Zero Emissions Research Initiative Congress.

Laila (Egypt, USA) (she/her)

Laila is a multimedia Afro Arab artist based in both Cairo, Egypt, and Rhode Island. She sees art as a means of detangling the true complexity of her intersectionality while in turn giving space for other creatives of color to exist alongside her in full color. Most of her work (both art and activism) is focused both on how individual aspects of our identities affect the space we take up and identifying the characteristics of our societies that are rooted in broader systems of oppression with the goal of further dismantling them.

Daniele (Singapore) (she/her)

Futurist Consultant

"We are a small group of students living and studying in Singapore, who are particularly passionate about making the earth a better place for all. However, being only teenagers, we found that it is very difficult to directly impact our communities, especially during the ongoing pandemic. Therefore, we created EcoºHeroes - the project that is focused on educating the younger generations about the environment, climate change, and sustainability.

Spiros (Singapore) (he/him)

Futurist Consultant

"We are a small group of students living and studying in Singapore, who are particularly passionate about making the earth a better place for all. However, being only teenagers, we found that it is very difficult to directly impact our communities, especially during the ongoing pandemic. Therefore, we created EcoºHeroes - the project that is focused on educating the younger generations about the environment, climate change, and sustainability.