[Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] Hi everyone, good evening.Let's do a small exercise before we go deep into the talk which talks about invisible roots of social change. Everyone close your eyes. Don't worry, I'll still be around when you open it.Now, imagine you're standing at the edge of the forest. It's quiet. You look around, you see nothing but trees, but beneath your feet, something powerful is happening.Roots are intertwining, sharing water, nutrients, reaching deep. Yes, even messages. ...

[Music] When you think about social change, when you think about community, what do you envision? Do you envision one group of individuals from an affluent community serving and assisting individuals from an underserved community? Maybe you picture social change to be serving individuals within your own prospective communities. This, of course, is normal. But what if I told you that social change also takes place in unexpected places? See, I've always been fascinated by the criminal justice system. I'm a be ...

[Applause] Let me paint you a picture. It's 2011. I'm in high school at a Friday night football game.I along with my two best friends are wearing our sweatshirts that display the words cookie girls on the back. I didn't understand a single rule about football, but for social acceptance, I knew I needed to be there. A lot of my upbringing felt this way, pretending to care about things I didn't in order to assimilate.It was my way of preventing any potential rejection that might come my way, especially the ki ...

[Music] [Music] [Applause] What if I told you that every limitation you have ever felt in your life is just a construct of your mind. that you're just limited in your mind based upon social limitations, historical limitations and your personal biases. That in reality there are no limitations.There was a time that people were not allowed to vote based upon their color, based upon their color and their gender. That changed not because law changed. Law was made because somebody decided they have to push beyond ...