Shireen Jaffer, Skillify founder, delivers Tedx Talk

About the Speaker: Shireen Jaffer

Shireen Jaffer is the founder at Skillify and a graduate of the USC Marshall School of Business. Shireen is passionate about helping students understand their value and teaching them how to find their success in their own ways.  As a result, she works with educators across the state to ensure that schools are equipping students with the relevant skills needed for them to thrive long-term, inside and outside of the academic environment.

About the Event

This Tedx event was hosted by Santa Catalina High School in October 2016. Here is the motivation behind this event:

Legacies come in many different forms. They can be inherited from a predecessor, created by an organization, or formed by personal achievements.  We often forget to look towards the future and create legacies with the intent of making our world a better place.

With our theme of Legacy, we sought to to:

  • Recognize those with goals to make lasting societal contributions that will enrich our world.
  • Ponder how our own legacies have the potential to positively and negatively impact the future and those around us.
  • Learn to appreciate the legacies our families, friends, and peers have left for us.
  • Spark interest in the impacts others around us have made
  • Create legacies to stimulate a dynamic and influential community
  • Gain appreciation for the legacies others have created and sought to create.
  • Become inspired to plant and grow our personal legacies with the intention of fostering our own unique passions.
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