Ashanti Branch
Oakland, California, US
Founder, Ever Forward Club; Fulbright Scholar (India); Rotary Club Cultural Fellow (Mexico); Top-3 Finalist; LinkedIn’s “Compassion” Award; “The Masks We All Wear” – TEDxMarin talk viewed nearly 100,000 times.
(5) Big Ideas from the Episode:
- Who can we be with where we can take our masks off, “to be our full, authentic selves?”
- Creating space for vulnerability.
- Most schools talk about wellness in their mission statement, but do kids actually feel that schools care about their wellness.
- Importance of teacher well-being.
- Value of being fully seen and fully known.