There's a question I've never been able to answer easily. Where are you from. I know it sounds simple, but for many of us it isn't.Because when your family has crossed borders for four generations, the answer is no longer one place. It's a story. Mine begins with my great-grandfather.He left southern Italy before the First World War. His mother and daughter sent there, my grandmother, to England at the age of 11, just a child, to work. And my mother, she grew up between two languages, building a network of ...

I'm excited to share this next song with you. Um, I wrote this one a year and a half ago after I saw a news story about immigrants and how we need to be concerned with immigrants taking resources. And I was so struck by how stuck Americans are in the scarcity mindset.We're so worried about getting what's mine and taking what's mine and protecting what's mine instead of sharing what is ours with each other. Um, so I wrote this song, Strawberries, about the proverbial garden where we care for each other. Ever ...

Social Movement & Solidarity - Approximately 30% of Amsterdam's population, around 250,000 people, demonstrated solidarity with Palestine by wearing red in the city streets [1]

Before October 7th of 2023, have any of you ever confused Palestine with Pakistan, whether in Chinese or English. They're pretty similar, aren't they. When I first returned to Hong Kong after volunteering in Palestine for half a year back in 2022, I was startled by the sheer number of people who did.But perhaps it is understandable. Many schools in Hong Kong probably would not have offered an introduction to the Middle East throughout 12 years of education. Mine did not.And the Middle East does not figure m ...

[Music] So, how can we move beyond a profit centered world to create a culture where business and people truly thrive. Picture yourself at the end of a long workday driven by data, figures, pressure, and goals. The city around you never stops.It's always demanding more. Everything needs to be faster and with fewer resources. But how often do you find yourself wondering is this all there is.During COVID, do you remember the isolation, the empty streets, and how this new situation forced us to ask ourselves w ...

[Music] My mom taught me two really important things that shaped my entire life. First thing is that if you are born into a privilege, you need to use this privilege to fight for others. And second, even more important thing was that friends, especially women friends, are probably the most important thing that you will have in your entire life.My mom's best friends were my role models. We laughed together, we traveled together, and we even marched together. and they presented this radical idea to me that so ...