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ENCORE: Green is (still) Gold
At the end of the 20-21 school year HS students at Hangzhou CIS hosted a Green Is Gold Film Festival. Mandy & Yi-Mei, two of the featured filmmakers, join me on the po...
Constellation Leadership & Dispelling Autism Stereotypes at BCIS in Beijing
At Beijing City International School, Maggie is a student-leader of a high school club called Unlock. The mission of Unlock is to raise awareness and dispel myths and ...
ENCORE: Students Together AgaiNst Discrimination at the International School of Helsinki
Amazing things are happening at the International School of Helsinki. On this episode Diana, Ankita, Erion & Philip, student leaders at ISH, join me to talk about a st...
Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Conversation with Nolan Higdon about Civil Discourse and Critical Media Literacy
In this episode we break from our usual format and I have a conversation with Nolan Higdon. Nolan is an author and university lecturer at Merrill College and the educa...
ENCORE: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us - Part 1
In this two-part story, Larry, Itu, Chinwe and Anna join me on the podcast from the International School of Dakar in Senegal. These four student leaders, following sto...
Significant Voices: History Podcasts by 4th Grade Students at SFS
This week on the Empathy to Impact podcast we are unleashing the power of media as 4th grade students from Seoul Foreign School become podcasters themselves and share ...
ENCORE: Storytelling for Social Justice at Irondale High School
Oprah Winfrey said, “Everybody has a story. And there is something to be learned from every experience.” Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick fully embrace this with the mo...
Awareness, Advocacy & Action through Student Media at Dulwich College
On this episode I connect with 3 documentary filmmakers from Dulwich College at the Pudong Campus in Shanghai. Phoenix represents a group that focused on SDG 5, Gender...
ENCORE: Reimagining Service Learning at XLIS in Xi’An, China
As we begin a new school year, there is bound to be lots of buzz as students plan CAS, service and personal projects at schools across the globe. I thought this was th...
Migration Stories Part II - How might we build a sense of belonging for refugees?
How might we build empathy for people who are forced to move from their home and settle in a new place? How might we create a sense of belonging for refugees? These we...
ENCORE: Insights from a Self-Identified Perfectionist
As we begin a new school year many students and educators feel stress and we often trend a bit towards the perfectionist end of the spectrum. I thought it might be tim...
Storytelling: Migration Stories in our own Communities
On this episode I explore the power of storytelling with a specific focus on migration stories in our local communities. To help me unpack this, I am joined by four st...
Echoer’s Journal: The Importance of Media Literacy, an Authentic Audience and Civil Discourse
My guest on this episode, Linda, is a recent graduate of BCIS in Beijing. She is an aspiring journalist with a passion for global issues and current events. In this ep...
FIS Changemaker Conference Recap and a Look Ahead at What’s To Come
In March of this year I had the opportunity to virtually attend the student-led Changemaker conference hosted by Frankfurt International School. Despite an ongoing pan...
Service Through the Lens of Technology and Entrepreneurship
On this episode I meet 3 seniors from BCIS in Beijing, Wallington, Tom and Hower, and I was absolutely blown away by the work they are doing at their school. They run ...
Period Poverty Part 2 - Uganda
Following up from our last episode on period poverty, I reconnect with Nantume in Uganda to talk about her MYP personal project where she addresses this important issu...
Period Poverty Part 1 - Beijing
On this episode, I meet a HS student from BCIS in Beijing named Anna who is an inspiring young changemaker. Anna is very passionate about gender equality and is doing ...
The Future of Education
On this episode we do something we don’t usually do. We invite educators to join the conversation. Back in November 2021, Inspire Citizens lead a workshop sponsored by...
Radical Re-Imagination - Think Like There Are No Barriers & Develop Your Activism
“Activism is a verb. It’s a doing word. It’s not a title. It’s not a position. It’s what you do. The moment you make your environment, your community, or your current ...
The Value & Impact of Community Service
On this episode the Empathy to Impact Podcast visits Beijing and I talk to Qinglan, a senior at Beijing City International School. Qinglan is from Beijing, but spent m...
Coat of Ash - Videos for Change
On our first visit to Australia for the podcast, I meet Charlotte, a young filmmaker and changemaker who is having an impact through her media work. Her short film, Co...
Student Action Reduces Food Waste at CISS
On this episode we are going to do something a little bit different. We are going to be taking a look at student media for impact and how student changemakers took act...
Interviewing Local Heroes at HKIS
On this episode we are off to Hong Kong to catch up with a couple of 8th grade podcasters. Chloe and Evelyn are first time podcasters and did an outstanding job tellin...
Storytelling for Social Justice at Irondale High School
On this episode I catch up with three seniors, Aisha, Amina, & Emilio, at Irondale High School in Minnesota to talk about a project they are doing in an elective class...
Journey of a Young Changemaker
Jake, an 11-year-old sixth grade student from Colorado, USA, is the founder of Young Changemakers International. Join me as we talk about some of the amazing work that...
Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us - Part 2
How do we celebrate diversity in our communities? Diversity has many different forms and unfortunately sometimes leads to bias and discrimination both in and outside o...
Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us - Part 1
In this two-part story, Larry, Itu, Chinwe and Anna join me on the podcast from the International School of Dakar in Senegal. These four student leaders, following sto...
Insights from a Self-Identified Perfectionist
In addition to being a filmmaker and coach of World Scholars Cup at his school, Billy is a self-identified perfectionist. He has given a TED talk on this very subject....
Students Together AgaiNst Discrimination at the International School of Helsinki
Amazing things are happening at the International School of Helsinki. On this episode Diana, Ankita, Erion & Philip, student leaders at ISH, join me to talk about a st...
Reimagining Service Learning at XLIS in Xi’An, China
Join me for a story of how personal connection and empathy ignited passion and empowered students to have an huge impact in our global community. In Episode 2, we met ...