TEDxMoorestown Friends School

Speakers

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

• Ali Sabir

  Ali Sabir is a senior in high school who enjoys reading history and playing soccer. Outside the classroom, he’s been active in local government and community projects. His talk will focus on how to teach civics, drawing on his experience from Civics Week, a program he helped create to make civic engagement accessible for students, and has now expanded to neighboring schools.

• Iniya Malaikani

  Iniya Malaikani is a senior at Moorestown High School. Outside of academics, Iniya is passionate about both literature and debate, the latter of which she expresses through heavy involvement in three of the offered debate clubs at the high school. Her talk will cover the vast and varied implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in literary spaces, as well as broader questions of what makes literature worth reading. Specifically, her talk seeks to answer a major question raised by the increasing prevalence of AI: Why should humanity continue to write?

• Jason Lin

  Jason Lin is a junior at Moorestown Friends School. In his free time, he likes reading novels, learning about history, and doing theatre. Some of his favorite books are Six Of Crows, Scythe, Song of Achilles, and Sunrise On the Reaping. He also likes listening to the Crane Wives and Madilyn Mei’s music. His talk will focus on the history of scapegoating as well as its psychological roots. It will seek to explore much of the why behind atrocities like fascism and the Salem Witch Trials, and how they still haunt all of us even today.

• Livia Kam

  Livia Kam is a senior from Moorestown Friends School who is driven by a curiosity to uncover the truth and bring light to marginalized voices through advocacy, journalism, and policymaking. She is also the principal violist for the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra and the violist for the Braverman String Quartet of the Settlement Music School Advanced Chamber Ensemble, as well as a member of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Young Friends Steering Committee. Her talk will show her perspective on the never-ending journey of self-growth through the lens of mindfulness. Discussing practice methods using her viola, she will explore how being mindful can improve one’s quality of life.

• Rohan Dhulipalla

  Rohan Dhulipalla is a junior at Moorestown Friends School. Outside of his classes, he is the founder of Teenuscript, a publishing house run by and for teen authors, the executive editor at several literary magazines and also a TikToker in his free time. His talk will explore the future of publishing as traditional models grow outdated, highlighting how technology, community, and risk-taking can reimagine the industry. He will focus on how young (or, really any age) writers can fit and position themselves in this shifting landscape, raising the broader question of what it means, and what it costs, to “wait” in creative industries.