2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Official Acceptance Letter
Dear Delegate, Congratulations on being accepted to the 2013 GlobeMed Global Health Summit! You are among 300 university students that will participate in the three-day summit held April 11-13 on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. The 2013 GlobeMed Global Health Summit will bring the network together for three days of intensive lectures and workshops with representatives from grassroots global health organizations and global health experts. The Summit is designed to prepare GlobeMed students to be leaders in the field, with discrete programming focused on knowledge-sharing, personal discernment, and community-building. The 2013 Summit theme - “The Student Momentum” - will focus on the unique position of young people as agents of change because of, and not despite, their role as students. Through this experience, delegates are equipped to be more effective leaders, partners and change makers. GlobeMed members will gather to hear perspectives from thought leaders in the fields of global health and social policy. Throughout the weekend, students will consider the opportunities and challenges of young people fighting to end global health equity. Students will apply the lessons and skills they have acquired to their chapter’s partnerships. We are pleased to announce that we will be joined by Leymah Gbowee for our Saturday afternoon keynote. Gbowee, recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, helped organize an interreligious coalition of Christian and Muslim women called the Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace movement, in which thousands of women staged pray-ins and nonviolent protests putting pressure on high-level institutions for change. This pushed Charles Taylor, former president of Liberia, into exile and laid the foundation for a peaceful election of Africa’s first female head of state. We are excited to announce our Thursday and Friday evening keynotes: President Morton Shapiro of Northwestern University and Zeenat Rahman, Secretary Clinton’s Special Adviser on Global Youth Issues and Director of the Office of Global Youth Issues. Previous Summits have brought global leaders including Paul Farmer, Joseph Amon, Stephen Lewis, and Nils Daulaire, to address the Northwestern community at large and engage them in dialogue on how to advance a movement for a healthier world. I can be contacted at the address below, emailed at maya@globemed.org or called anytime at 847-467-2143. Sincerely, Maya Cohen Executive Director GlobeMed | 620 Library Place | Evanston, IL | 60208 | www.globemed.org | info@globemed.org | 847-467-2143
2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Summit Essentials
What to wear Smart Casual Attire – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_casual
take a fashion hint from these two. Evanston can be quite cold in April, so don’t forget to pack warm clothes! What to bring -
Water bottle Umbrella Camera Notebook & pens/pencils (we’ll give you a folder with relevant Summit materials) A bit of cash, since there will be two meals on your own throughout the weekend Your A++ game
Chapter Merchandise Some chapters will be selling merchandise at the opening and closing dinners. In the past, chapters have sold a wide range of GlobeMed goodies - handmade earrings, mugs, t-shirts, and more. Bring some extra cash to stock up on GlobeMed memorabilia and support the network!
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2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Directions to Evanston
Directions from O’Hare & Midway Airports To Northwestern University (Evanston, IL) FROM O’HARE: Option 1: Call a Taxi (fare: approximately $30- $40 Approx. 40 min) - Norshore Cab: (847) 864 7500 - American Taxi: (847) 673-1000 – cheapest flat rate - 303 Taxi: (847) 303-0303 - Or hail a cab at the airport (likely to be more expensive) Option 2: Take the Pace Bus (departs O’Hare every 20-30 minutes. Fare: $1.75 Approx. 1 hour) 1. Follow signs (or ask for) directions to bus stop for PACE BUS 250 (Kiss n’ Fly – Terminal 5) 2. Take Pace Bus 250 to Davis St. CTA Station in Evanston, IL 3. Head south on Benson Ave toward Davis St 4. Turn left at Davis St 5. Turn right at Sherman Ave; Best Western will be on your right at 1501 Sherman Ave. Option 3: Take the “L” (Fare: $2.25 Approx. 2 hrs) **Taking the L from O’Hare to Evanston will take 2 hours or more** For Train Schedules, see http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/rail/rail.html 1. Take Blue Line train from the O’Hare station to Washington Street in the Loop 2. Take the Red Line north to Howard 3. Take the Purple Line north to the Davis stop 4. See Option 2, steps 2-5 to arrive at the Best Western FROM MIDWAY: Option 1: Call a Taxi (Fare: $40.00 - $50.00 Approx. 1 hr) Same companies as ‘from O’Hare’ section Option 2: Take the “L” Train (Fare: $2.25 Approx. 2 hrs) For Train Schedules, see http://www.transitchicago.com/maps/rail/rail.html 1. Follow signs out of airport to the Orange Line Midway “L” Stop 2. Take the CTA Orange Line to the State/Lake stop in Chicago’s Loop 3. Walk down the stairs to State Street. 4. Walk about a half-block south and take the stairs down from State Street to the subway station. Take the Red Line north to Howard 5. Take the Purple Line north to the Davis Street stop in Evanston. 6. See Option 2 (from O’Hare), lines 3-5 for directions from the Davis St. CTA station to the Best Western.
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2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Dining Options in Evanston
Restaurants
Cafes
FlatTop Grill // 707 Church St
Unicorn Cafe //1723 Sherman Ave
847-570-0100
847-332-2312
Chipotle // 711 Church St
Kafein // 1621 Chicago Ave
847-425-3959
847-491-1621
Sashimi Sashimi // 640 Church St
Starbucks // 1724 Sherman Ave
847-475-7274
847-492-0490
Panera Bread // 1700 Sherman Ave
Cafe Mozart // 600 Davis St
847-733-8356
847-492-8056
Potbelly’s // 603 Davis St
JJ Java // 911 Foster St
847-328-1800
847-239-4180
Chili’s // 1765 Maple Ave
Cafe Ambrosia // 1620 Orrington Ave
847-328-9068
847-328-0081
Clarke’s // 720 Clark St
Peet’s Coffee // 1622 Chicago Ave
847-864-1610
847-864-8413
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2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Summit Pre-Reading 1
'How to Survive a Plague' Director David France Looks Back: 'All I See Are Ghosts' By Jordan Zakarin | The Hollywood Reporter | 8:28 AM PST 2/4/2013 | http://bit.ly/YGUjD7
David France fought for over a decade to make the world care about AIDS. Now, he's making sure it doesn't forget. A journalist living in New York City's East Village when the mysterious epidemic began to slaughter the gay community in 1981, France dedicated himself to chronicling the nascent fight to find a cure for the plague. First, however, the community needed to organize and rise up to fight the homophobia of the times, coming out of the closet onto the national stage to speak out and demand recognition for their rights, both civil and medical. He covered the emergence of ACT UP, a community organization which took to the streets in marches and protests, raising the profile of the victims as the disease continued to tear through the nation. Millions were dying, and fear was gripping the city, but it took years for President Ronald Reagan to acknowledge the disease, and it first became a real campaign issue in the 1992 election. A few years later, medical advances would begin to help stem the rushing tide of illness. In his Oscar-nominated documentary How to Survive a Plague, France looks back on the fight through vintage footage and interviews, highlighting the activists as never before.
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This interview has been slightly edited and condensed THR: I think I wasn’t aware of the details of the fight against AIDS and the rise of gay activism as much as other civil rights movements, and this was much more recent. Do you think it gets short- changed at all, in terms of public discussion? France: Oh, absolutely. That’s why we set out to do this project in the first place. It’s as significant a movement as the women’s health movement, the Civil Rights movement, the anti-war movement. It’s more fundamentally transformative than those movements, and yet it has so far not been treated with that kind of significance. And the first thing I wanted to do when I started working on the film was to put it on the shelf with those great American social justice movements and teach people how significant it was for American lives, to canonize it. THR: I live in the East Village of Manhattan and hang out downtown, and you don’t think of where you are as historical ground, but that’s actually the case. France: Absolutely, and especially where you are, the Village. I’m still in the same place as I was back then. I guess my lease is as old as you. I’m on 7th Street, and I just look around and see ghosts in the East Village. THR: And it’s changed so much, the neighborhood. France: All of those people in the film were from the East Village, and the majority of the street forces that were in ACT UP were East Village artists and bohemians, and people living self-styled lives [who] found a way to afford to be able to do it, spend all that time that it took, to be basically a full-time, unpaid political operative. STORY: AIDS Activist/Filmmaker David France on Ed Koch: 'What He Could Do, He Didn't Do' [6] THR: That interested me, because at the end of the film, those involved said they were figuring out what to do when the main portion, or at least first act, of the fight wound down in the 90’s, and the film detailed what each person went on to do as a career. So I was wondering what people did to support themselves for a decade of this fight. France: The people with HIV were more able to go on disability, many with private insurance. And some had some family money, so for the most part, at least the people in the struggle came from a background of some privilege, and they exercised that. But even those that came from privilege were living very close to the edge in those years, and living in the East Village, as you rightly point out, was a way different neighborhood back then. It was a full-on ghetto, where drugs were dealt openly, and it was dotted with empty buildings. It was a place you would go because the rent was cheap. THR: This movie is almost all vintage footage. It must have been difficult to look back on -- you’re in some of the video -- to see how skinny and sick people were, to watch the fights. How much did you go through, how many hours? France: We went through thousands of hours to pull together just short of 800 hours, very specific footage about the journey of the treatment activists. So that was sort of the first culling, to bring it down to that narrow amount of vintage footage. And from there, we cut the film out of 800 hours ... All these tapes were unnumbered, undated, they were for the most part just people’s private collection. So we had to ascertain where the footage was shot, and we had to find our own characters in that footage. So we had a wall of photographs, we called it the Wanted Wall, so if any of those people in those photographs appeared in the footage, the frontline PAs would call out so we could go and see our people and what they were doing and where they were doing it.
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THR: Do you think if the government had been active -- either not ignorant or unconcerned -- they could have stopped it early on before it spread so much? Or was there no stopping it? France: No, I think it could have been stopped. I mean, it’s hypothetical, right? But here’s what we know: in 1981, there were 41 patients, and today there is over 70 million. There’s over 35 million dead. So when there were 41 cases, if the government had treated it as a new and dangerous infectious disease, if they had mounted any sort of public-health response to try and contain it, which they didn’t do ... The first thing that you would do is to assign all your epidemiological resources to it, and they didn’t beef up the resources. We saw them do it with earlier outbreaks. When there was a Tylenol outbreak, when someone got sick from a bottle of Tylenol, and the jets of the public-health system were scrambled. We saw them do it in Legionnaires' disease and toxic shock syndrome, so everyone knew there was a way to respond to a new danger. And it was just very apparent from day one that that response was not happening in this disease. THR: When Hurricane Katrina happened and the government took days to respond and there was so much suffering, some people whispered that the government was selectively disinterested, or less motivated, because of the people that were impacted. Do you think that’s the same sort of case? France: That’s absolutely the case. The first several years of the epidemic, the only discussion on Capitol Hill of the AIDS epidemic literally included the kind of cheering on and laughing about the deaths of gay people to AIDS. You see a little bit of it in the film with Jesse Helms holding court, but he did that on a regular basis, and he wasn’t alone. People nodded along and applauded with him. Ronald Reagan, it took him six years and tens of thousands of deaths during his administration to even say anything about it. And when he finally said something about it, within weeks of his first comment, he said, “When it comes to AIDS, morality and science teach us the same thing." Which is still blaming the victim for this epidemic that now has spread, as I said before, in this wild way. And it didn’t have to spread. It could have been contained. We could have solved the problem through containment, through education, through the dissemination of information about how to avoid the illness, and all of that stuff had to be done by the gay community itself. Private funding -- we didn’t have institutions in place already to do it, we had to build brand-new institutions and we had to invent public health in a parallel system and do it that way. It was all done with private initiative. And there was no way that a private initiative could come together fast enough to keep 41 from becoming 10,000 and 100,000 and a million. THR: Watching Jesse Helms’ just blatantly homophobic speeches, it’s remarkable. Do you watch politics today and see a lawmaker speaking, and say, wow, we’re going to watch video of this guy talking in 10 years and it’s going to sound insane? France: Well, I certainly am on certain subjects. Like global warming, those documentaries 40 years from now, when everyone is sitting in their oxygen masks, they’re going to be just laughing at those elected officials that are calling it a political attack on coal or whatever they say. But it is shocking to look at that footage of Jesse Helms and to know that this feeling of violation, the sense that you get when you learn that the government spoke like that about people, about citizens, about people we now know are our neighbors and brothers and co-workers and sisters and mothers and all of those things. But back in 1981, there was no role in civic life for gay people. We had been excluded from every aspect of civic life. We weren’t allowed to even say who we were at work, we were fired from jobs, I was fired from a job for being gay [at the NY Post] as though that was a violation of something. And that was happening all over the place. So there were no gay rights. And there were no gay people, as a result, that were standing up and explaining our realities to the larger world.
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It was a crazy time and it’s also crazy to think ... just 25 or 30 years since then ... what a dramatic cultural transformation has taken place with the integration of gay people in ordinary life. And that’s one of the legacies of the AIDS activists. That’s one of the first things that AIDS activists had to take on, to establish -- as ridiculous as it sounds -- the idea that people who had AIDS were human and deserving of compassion and empathy. THR: This may be a silly reference, but it’s how a generation sees it: There was an episode of South Park that said the treatment and cure for HIV was injecting money into oneself. But in a way, it’s true, right, because it’s so expensive? Why do you think that is? France: Because they can get away with it. It’s still an area where new drug classes are being developed, and it’s expensive to develop a new drug class. But there are so many people with HIV these days -- there’s a market, let’s call it -- we know they’ll be able to recoup. But what they’re looking for instead are these killer profits. The whole economic reality since 2008, the pharmaceutical industry has taken a dip in its profit levels. They’re finding ways to bring in profits, even if their prices are so high that they’re out of reach for some people. THR: You would think that during the age of Reagan, some great market capitalist would have seen the demand and made an AIDS drug. France: And once the market forces realized, they did start doing it. In fact, one person, Peter Staley ... really was the person that educated the pharmaceutical industry on the potential to profit. Peter brought to activism the language of money. And he said, we will help you get this product to market if you research it and do it quickly, and we will defend your right to a profit. Not a killer profit, which was what was happening with the first few drugs that came out, just usurious, most expensive drugs ever released. They were breaking all boundaries for drug prices. THR: I imagine a lot of people went into debt. France: Yeah, they did, but more so the government, through welfare and other entitlements, so that meant taxpayers. It was coming out of peoples’ pockets.
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2013 GlobeMed Summit April 11 - 13, 2013 // Summit Pre-Reading 2
Young People Have the Power to Change the World By Babatunde Osotimehin | The Atlantic | 9:21 ET NOV 12 2012 | http://bit.ly/YpuFXa
A social media revolution is unfolding before our eyes, forever changing the way we connect. I see this whenever I travel; the young boys of Lagos preoccupied with their cell-phones; a young girl tweeting from a health-care clinic in Bogota; a young Liberian nurse taking notes on an iPad. I also see how my own children connect with friends on Facebook. At the same time, we are living in a world faced with huge social challenges. Last year, the world reached a historic milestone with seven billion people, 1.8 billion of which are youth aged 10 to 24. And of this young population, 90 percent live in developing countries. This generation, the most interconnected generation ever, continues to grow rapidly, and the challenges they face are ever more daunting. About half of all young people survive on less than two dollars a day. More than 100 million adolescents do not attend school. Every year, 16 million adolescent girls become mothers. Almost 40 percent of the 6,800 new HIV infections each day are among young people. And every three seconds, All this, and I cannot help but be optimistic when I see the commitment of young people around the world. Over the next decade and beyond, if we are to solve the most pressing issues of our time, we need to tap into the dynamism of youth movements and young social entrepreneurs, for they have the potential to disrupt inertia and be the most creative forces for social change. We need to ask ourselves: how can we -- UN Agencies, governments, the private sector, NGOs, academia -- empower youth to drive social progress in the developing world through new and innovative projects? As Executive Director of UNFPA, it is my vision to deliver a world where the potential of each young person is fulfilled. For this to be achieved, we must first address the widespread misconception that young people shouldn't have a say when it comes to dealing with the world's problems. It pains me to see how young people, particularly those living in poverty, are treated as recipients when, in fact, they often know best what is best for themselves. "We need to ask ourselves: how can we -- UN Agencies, governments, the private sector, NGOs, academia -empower youth to drive social progress in the developing world through new and innovative projects?" The biggest forces driving social change today. A debate UNFPA has a long track-record of creating innovative projects in collaboration with youth organizations such as Y-PEER, a network of more than 500 non-profit organizations and governmental institutions whose membership includes more than 30,000 young people working in the many areas surrounding adolescent sexual and reproductive health. We also work with the African Youth Network on Population and Development (AFRIYAN), which focuses on including youth participation in the fight against HIV/AIDS and other critical health and development challenges. One other example is our partnership with Restless Development, which has been working for nearly 30 years to place young people at the forefront of change and development in countries such as India, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, and Uganda.
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Other collaborative efforts include our work with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts, the YWCA, Regional Youth Platforms and other networks. From crowd-sourcing initiatives and mobile-projects to innovation jams and social media campaigns, we continue to learn from young, innovative change-makers. Let me share with you some of these successful youth-led social media-driven projects we have supported. Last year, UNFPA launched 7 Billion Actions, a global campaign for all humanity. As part of this initiative, UNFPA hosted an Innovation Jam in Silicon Valley with SAP, one of the world's biggest software companies, and Ashoka, an NGO for social entrepreneurs. Young people, technology companies, academics and non-profit thought leaders were invited to find workable solutions to empower the global youth population. At UNFPA, we are also proud of our projects with Global Voices, a community of more than 500 bloggers and translators around the world. Last year, we commissioned young bloggers from across the globe to report on youth issues, with an emphasis on voices that are not ordinarily heard in international mainstream media. In October, UNFPA and partners launched a global social media campaign on child marriage, coinciding with the first ever International Day of the Girl Child. The aim was to mobilize support for young girls and encourage them to share stories and images from their communities. And finally, on December 4-6, 2012, UNFPA is co-hosting the Global Youth Forum in Bali, Indonesia, in partnership with UN agencies, youth, civil society and the private sector. Recognizing that young people are particularly receptive to social networks, more than 900 delegates will brainstorm on five crucial issues: health, education, employment sexuality and civic participation. I am always looking to partner with young social entrepreneurs. I welcome hearing your ideas on how we harness the vitality of young people to create a world where everyone counts. Copyright © 2013 by The Atlantic Monthly Group. All Rights Reserved.
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Unlock the Intelligence, Passion, Greatness of Girls (Video Transcript) TED Talk by Leymah Gbowee | Watch here: http://bit.ly/11h9eHA | MARCH 2012
Many times I go around the world to speak, and people ask me questions about the challenges, my moments, some of my regrets. 1998: A single mother of four, three months after the birth of my fourth child, I went to do a job as a research assistant. I went to Northern Liberia. And as part of the work, the village would give you lodgings. And they gave me lodging with a single mother and her daughter. This girl happened to be the only girl in the entire village who had made it to the ninth grade.She was the laughing stock of the community. Her mother was often told by other women,"You and your child will die poor." After two weeks of working in that village, it was time to go back. The mother came to me, knelt down, and said, "Leymah, take my daughter. I wish for her to be a nurse." Dirt poor, living in the home with my parents, I couldn't afford to. With tears in my eyes, I said, "No." Two months later, I go to another village on the same assignment and they asked me to live with the village chief. The women's chief of the village has this little girl, fair color like me, totally dirty. And all day she walked around only in her underwear. When I asked, "Who is that?" She said, "That's Wei. The meaning of her name is pig. Her mother died while giving birth to her, and no one had any idea who her father was." For two weeks, she became my companion, slept with me. I bought her used clothes and bought her her first doll. The night before I left, she came to the room and said, "Leymah, don't leave me here.I wish to go with you. I wish to go to school." Dirt poor, no money, living with my parents, I again said, "No." Two months later, both of those villages fell into another war. Till today, I have no idea where those two girls are. Fast-forward, 2004: In the peak of our activism, the minister of Gender Liberia called me and said, "Leymah, I have a nine-year-old for you. I want you to bring her home because we don't have safe homes." The story of this little girl: She had been raped by her paternal grandfather every day for six months. She came to me bloated, very pale. Every night I'd come from work and lie on the cold floor. She'd lie beside me and say, "Auntie, I wish to be well. I wish to go to school." 2010: A young woman stands before President Sirleaf and gives her testimony of how she and her siblings live together, their father and mother died during the war. She's 19; her dream is to go to college to be able to support them. She's highly athletic. One of the things that happens is that she applies for a scholarship. Full scholarship. She gets it. Her dream of going to school, her wish of being educated, is finally here. She goes to school on the first day. The director of sports who's responsible for getting her into the program asks her to come out of class. And for the next three years, her fate will be having sex with him every day, as a favor for getting her in school. Globally, we have policies, international instruments, work leaders. Great people have made commitments -we will protect our children from want and from fear. The U.N. has the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Countries like America, we've heard things like No Child Left Behind. Other countries come with different things. There is a Millennium Development called Three that focuses on girls. All of these great works by great people aimed at getting young people to where we want to get them globally, I think, has failed.
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In Liberia, for example, the teenage pregnancy rate is three to every 10 girls. Teen prostitution is at its peak. In one community, we're told, you wake up in the morning and see used condoms like used chewing gum paper. Girls as young as 12 being prostituted for less than a dollar a night. It's disheartening, it's sad. And then someone asked me, just before my TEDTalk, a few days ago, "So where is the hope?" Several years ago, a few friends of mine decided we needed to bridge the disconnect between our generation and the generation of young women. It's not enough to say you have two Nobel laureates from the Republic of Liberia when your girls' kids are totally out there and no hope, or seemingly no hope. We created a space called the Young Girls Transformative Project. We go into rural communities and all we do, like has been done in this room, is create the space. When these girls sit, you unlock intelligence, you unlock passion, you unlock commitment, you unlock focus, you unlock great leaders. Today, we've worked with over 300. And some of those girls who walked in the room very shy have taken bold steps, as young mothers, to go out there and advocate for the rights of other young women. One young woman I met, teen mother of four, never thought about finishing high school,graduated successfully; never thought about going to college, enrolled in college. One day she said to me, "My wish is to finish college and be able to support my children." She's at a place where she can't find money to go to school. She sells water, sells soft drinks and sells recharge cards for cellphones. And you would think she would take that money and put it back into her education. Juanita is her name. She takes that money and finds single mothers in her community to send back to school. Says, "Leymah, my wish is to be educated. And if I can't be educated, when I see some of my sisters being educated, my wish has been fulfilled. I wish for a better life. I wish for food for my children. I wish that sexual abuse and exploitation in schools would stop." This is the dream of the African girl. Several years ago, there was one African girl. This girl had a son who wished for a piece of doughnut because he was extremely hungry. Angry, frustrated, really upset about the state of her society and the state of her children, this young girl started a movement, a movement of ordinary women banding together to build peace. I will fulfill the wish. This is another African girl's wish. I failed to fulfill the wish of those two girls. I failed to do this.These were the things that were going through the head of this other young woman -- I failed, I failed, I failed. So I will do this. Women came out, protested a brutal dictator,fearlessly spoke. Not only did the wish of a piece of doughnut come true, the wish of peace came true. This young woman wished also to go to school. She went to school. This young woman wished for other things to happen, it happened for her. Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate. I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls -- the wish of being educated. We set up a foundation. We're giving full four-year scholarships to girls from villages that we see with potential. I don't have much to ask of you. I've also been to places in this U.S., and I know that girls in this country also have wishes, a wish for a better life somewhere in the Bronx, a wish for a better life somewhere in downtown L.A., a wish for a better life somewhere in Texas, a wish for a better life somewhere in New York, a wish for a better life somewhere in New Jersey. Will you journey with me to help that girl, be it an African girl or an American girl or a Japanese girl, fulfill her wish, fulfill her dream, achieve that dream? Because all of these great innovators and inventors that we've talked to and seen over the last few days are also sitting in tiny corners in different parts of the world, and all they're asking us to do is create that space to unlock the intelligence, unlock the passion, unlock all of the great things that they hold within themselves. Let's journey together. Let's journey together.
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