TEDxStockholmWomen

Speakers

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• Camilla Brandow Gustafsson

  Camilla Brandow Gustafsson is the 25-year-old girl from Stockholm who is sought out to create change. She is the founder and project manager of The Free Projects; a non-profit organization working towards changing the lives of people living in vulnerable living situations. Today she works actively in the remote village Karimenga, northern Ghana, in development projects of pinpointed character. Since the start in 2012, she has single handedly built a school, drilled for clean water and installed solar panels. But her commitment stretches further than that. She is a communicator out to her fingertips, having the mission to inspire people to get their dreams closer to their actions. Using her lessons from life, combining them with her experience being a young woman fighting her into the non-profit sector, leading construction teams and building schools in West Africa she tries to shorten the distance between worlds, building bridges of understanding and human compassion. She has a full time job on the side of her commitment to create positive change and being the example she wants to set; “I´m not saying I can save the world, but I am saying I can change lives”. She is a frequently hired lecturer at Universities, schools, companies talking about the power of change that lies hidden within every one of us, and now she can put TEDx to her résumé.

• Sa’ra Charismata

  Sa’ra Charismata, is the quintessential revival of the modern protest song in pop and alternative music. Sa’ra Charismata is proving that she is not afraid to sing truth to power and she is acutely aware that cultural change must necessarily precede political change. Her story begins as her parents fled the raging conflict in 1970s Eritrea in the horn of Africa, finding sanctuary in Sweden where she was raised. Growing up across three continents, Sa’ra has devoted her adolescent years influencing challenging issues pertaining to racial, economic and gender inequalities through music and field activism, primarily in the U.S. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY and Stockholm where she is wrapping up production of her yet untitled debut EP due for release later this spring. Her body of work is a call for collective reflection in the wake of national and global tragedies, with the insight that peace and equality can only be truly attained when those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who bear the brunt of social injustices. She continuously confronts systemic violence and quite bluntly states “War is a business, we’re funding corporate interests.”

• Sara Wettergren

  Sara Wettergren has served as the CEO for The Hunger Project Sweden since May 2012. Sara has extensive experience in both the public and private sectors at the local and international levels. In her early career she worked as a development consultant for among others The World Bank and the Danish development assistance, Danida. During this period she conducted assignments in Africa and Asia, and was based in Vientiane, Laos for a year and a half. Her focus was on the socio-economic aspects of development programs, and above all how women and girls would benefit from international aid programs. Furthermore, Sara has been working as a PR and Communications consultant, based in the expansive Öresund Region. She has broad experience in strategic consulting, communicative processes and forming public opinion. For some years she was involved in local politics, giving her a thorough insight into political processes and campaigning. Sara holds a Master Degree in International Relations and Political Science. She is a frequent lecturer in topics related to international aid, grassroot development and gender issues.

• Alexandra Larsson

  Alexandra Larsson is a Major in the Swedish Air Force. After graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1996 she served as an intelligence officer at a fighter squadron in southern Sweden for 6 years. After that she has held various positions in research & development throughout the Armed Forces and is currently Tech Lead for the Concept System for Intelligence & Security in the Armed Forces Headquarters in Stockholm. She studied Political Science at the University of Lund and has a degree from the National Defense College in Stockholm. In addition to that she has been on the federation board for The Swedish Federation for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Rights for five years and is a founding member of the Armed Forces LGBT Association.

• Jelena Mitra Hoop

  Jelena Mitra’s greatest love and passion is Hula Hoop dance. She finds inspiration and expansion of ideas through her performance acts. Jelena conducts a wide-variety of hula-hoop magic for many audiences worldwide. She also teaches hooping classes and creates her own Hula Hoops for her life and joy. 5 years ago the Hula Hoop came in to her life. From gone to an applicant destructive youth, she found something to focus on. The Hula Hoop made her happy, it opened up a way to get in contact and believe in herself. Mitra started doing street shows to raise money while she backed packed around the world. There came the realization that she was also able to make others happy, give something different to the people on the street by sharing her tricks with the Hula hoop. She started to make more Hula Hoops to her shows, to teach and suddenly she was making living out of Hula Hoops.