How College Loans Exploit Students for Profit
A TED Talk, featuring professor Sajay Samuel, who says that “Once upon a time in America, going to college did not mean... Read More
How Community-Led Research Drives Social Change
A TED Talk, featuring human rights activist Monica Malta, who discusses why traditional, top-down policymaking often fails by excluding key voices and... Read More
How Conscious Investors Can Turn Up the Heat and Make Companies Change
A 16 minute TED talk, featuring Vinay Shandal, who shares stories of the world’s top activist investors, showing how individuals and institutions can... Read More
How Democracy Works Now
A documentary consisting of twelve discrete films about several dozen people in all kinds of places, each connected by a commitment to... Read More
How Displaced People are Driving Local Economies
A TED Talk, part of the Audacious Project, TED’s initiative to inspire and fund global change. Features Julienne Oyler, who discusses the... Read More
How Doctors Can Help Low-Income Patients (and still make a profit)
A 10 minute TED talk, featuring P.J. Parmar M.D., who shares in an eye-opening (and surprisingly funny) talk, the story of the... Read More
How Does It Feel to Be Unwanted?: Stories of Resistance and Resilience from Mexicans Living in the United States
By Eileen Truax. Thirteen stories that illuminate the issues affecting the Mexican community and shows the breadth of a frequently stereotyped population. Regardless... Read More
How Economic Inequality Harms Societies
A TED talk featuring Richard Wilkinson who charts the hard data on economic inequality and shows what gets worse when rich and... Read More
How Gerrymandering Can Impact an Election
A short illustrated video from TED Ed, that shows how district lines, and the groups of voters within them, may seem arbitrary,... Read More