Talk Categories: Activism
Being Black in a White State: What It Means to Belong
As a Black woman living in one of the whitest states in the nation, community organizer Courtney Daniel explores the reality of belonging. This thought-provoking talk offers an unexpected perspective...
End Human Trafficking One Consciously Sourced Purchase At A Time!
It is estimated that 40 million people are victims to human trafficking. Bryan Bessette uses his non-profit platform to educate consumers on how to ask supply chains where their products come from in order to shift buying habits and put an end to forced labor.
Giving freely: How free burgers break barriers
Caitlin McGrath-Levesque and her siblings travel in their free meal food trucks to provide fresh, made to order food to those in need. All without questions, limits or stigma.
PFAS and a Mother’s Journey to Becoming A Clean Water Advocate
Andrea Amico is a mom turned national recognized clean-water activist after her local public drinking water became contaminated with Perfluorinated compounds (PFCs). Andrea Amico is a mom turned national recognized...
Reducing single-use plastic at the local level
Keith Tharp makes the quick case for how small, local efforts and organizations can combine to make a large impact. Keith co-founded Sustainable Seacoast with his wife, a nonprofit organization with the primary goal of eliminating single-use plastic in their local restaurant industry. The results are actual reduction in plastic use and shifts in mindset for businesses and residents.
What I learned from hiring hundreds of former inmates
Margo Walsh is the founder of MaineWorks, an award-winning staffing company that hires individuals in recovery from addiction and those reentering society after incarceration. In this talk, she shares her deeply personal journey from early sobriety to building a social enterprise that reimagines what it means to give someone a second chance.