TEDxYouth@IBSH

Speakers

Speakers may not be confirmed. Check the event website for the latest lineup.

• Alex Bleecker

  Originally from Teaneck, New Jersey, Alex Bleecker has been an educator for over 20 years, during which time he’s assumed a variety of roles, including Environmental Chair at the High School for Public Service in Brooklyn, NY.

• Atlas You

  By night, he's an idealist who stubbornly believes the future will be better. By day, he's a project manager at the Taiwan Space Agency (TASA), working on satellite missions. His academic track record is widely scattered, covering information science, biology, and aerospace engineering. Somehow, he's led teams to win awards in competitions like NASA Space Apps and iGEM, ended up as the lead organizer of HITCON CMT 2024—one of Asia’s biggest hacker conferences—and still manages to squeeze in time advising on youth policy for the Hsinchu City Government. At just 30, he's already collected enough awkward stories to entertain future grandchildren: single-digit math scores, changing majors multiple times, and working various odd jobs—construction, restaurants, even delivering flyers. But he doesn't see these as failures—just good material for later. Anyway, he's just getting started.

• Liz Margolis

  Elizabeth Margolis is a development advocacy professional specializing in policy and programmes for health and nutrition, humanitarian response, food security, school meals, and gender transformative policy. She is currently serving as Health & Nutrition External Engagement Manager for World Vision International. In this role, she manages global health & nutrition policy advocacy and global events. Liz holds a Master’s Degree in Social Development with Distinction from the University of Sussex and a Bachelor's degree in Public Policy and Ethics from Templeton Honors College at Eastern University. She holds the GenderPro Certificate and is a Certified Development Project Management (CDPM), and was also a recipient of the International Mickey Leland Hunger Fellowship ('21-'23) through the US Congressional Hunger Center. Previously with World Vision, she has managed school meal programs and humanitarian responses in Angola and Burundi. She was advocacy lead for WV’s Global Hunger Response and has advised on food security humanitarian policy. Liz has also previously worked for the United Nations World Food Program on cash transfers, policy, and data analysis. In addition, she has worked for several US-based NGOs and speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese fluently.