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I am passionate about education. I try my best to help my teachers and students at my school to ensure that the students have the necessary reading and writing skills to have a successful future. I want to continue these TEDx events at my school because it will help me achieve my goal in promoting literacy at my school.

I have a few passions, and they seem to rotate regularly and cyclically. I have a great passion for philosophy and social anthropology, for cultures, and for understanding different points of view and where and why they come from. This passion manifests through my extensive travels and immersion in other cultures. I have lived long term in at least 3 different countries. I am a student of Philosophy. I have a passion for middle eastern dance and modern dance forms, as well as other aesthetic art forms and design. I am a professional bellydancer, a life model, and a small property designer and developer.

cognitive science, evolutionary psychology and music

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Decolonizing the processes and policies created to address the climate crisis. We can't just work on stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions and treating the climate crisis from a reductionist frame that reduces it to a mathematical equation. When we approach the crisis like this we risk replicating the same systems of harm and oppression that contributed to the climate crisis in the first place. Instead, we must take a more holistic approach that looks at stabilizing our relationships with the land, Mother Earth in its entirety, and with each other. While Indigenizing is about the inclusion of Indigenous peoples and voices within predetermined (colonial) constructs, while visibility and representation is an incredibly important part of this work, it is not decolonization. Indigenizing works to make Indigenous peoples, values, and knowledge visible in colonial systems. As such it maintains the centering of colonial systems, structures and power rather than shifting or relinquishing power (ie. government agencies hiring Indigenous peoples to determine how to address Indigenous sovereignty and self-determination). Decolonization on the other hand requires an undoing and decentering of colonial lenses, processes, systems and power. It also requires work from all parties and is not a responsibility held by Indigenous peoples but is something we need to work collaboratively to achieve. Much like Indigenizing there is a need to understand the lived histories and experiences of Indigenous peoples where it diverges is in the steps that come afterwards. Apologies and Diversity and inclusion falls short of achieving decolonization, which requires colonial institutions to relinquish power, resources and processes as opposed to absorbing decolonial knowledge, systems, power and processes into their own which diminishes sovereignty.