Fostering Platforms for Youth Led Social Innovation
Fostering Platforms for Youth Led Social Innovation
with Chris Kang and Violetta Ilkiw
As part of SiG's speaker series, we hosted Violetta Ilkiw, of the Laidlaw Foundation and Chris Kang, Executive Director of Schools Without Borders. Chris and Violetta are widely respected experts in designing, implementing, and evaluating award winning approaches to education, community health and youth engagement. Chris, co-founded Schools Without Borders, an organzation that has raised over $4 million, reinvested 1.5 million and has supported 5000+young people to create practical and culturally relevant learning platforms to launch their ideas for social impact. Violetta has been very influential in helping to transform the way the Laidlaw Foundation makes space for youth leadership on social issues. She is considered to be an expert on working with social, public and private organizations and agencies committed to the inclusion of diverse young people in positions of governance, engaging young people in collective leadership and decision-making.
About this talk:
In this talk, Chris and Violetta shared their experiences and insights from working with youth for social change. They also discussed how their experiences have supported the development of the Youth Social Infrastructure Collaborative, which is a community that accelerates and amplifies the conditions for youth-led organizing and engagement in Ontario.
Introduction from Cheryl Rose
Main Presentation
Panel
About: The Innovators in Action Speaker Series.
This Spring, SiG@Waterloo will be welcoming four of Canada’s leaders in the field of social innovation to our Innovators in Action speaker series. Topics will focus on education, youth social infrastructure, vulnerable populations, social technologies, community resilience and social finance. Each of the keynote speakers will share their experiences in working to identify and address the root causes of intractable social challenges. Each presentation will be followed by a discussion with local panel members who will share their reflections on the ideas and offer their own insights.
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