Theme: 'Breaking Free'

TEDxYouth @ JNIS 2017 is an independently, student-organized event that enables communities and individuals to ignite new ideas as well as inspire and inform others. TEDxYouth @ JNIS is a fully planned and independently coordinated event operating under a free license granted by TED. Living up to the spirit of TED ‘Ideas worth sharing’, Jamnabai Narsee International School presents you proficient speakers from diverse domains of expertise and offers you a platform to engage in a plethora of new ideas and nurture curiosity based on the theme 'breaking free' at the TEDxYouth@JNIS 2017.

Date: September 22, 2017.
Time: 12:30 pm - 3 pm

Jamnabai Narsee School
Narsee Monjee Bhavan, N.S.Road No. 7, Juhu
JVPD Scheme, Vile Parle (W)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400049
India

Ami Shroff

NGO Director

From summer training at NGOs to working as an intern with an agro company in the borderline region of Kutch, Ami Shroff, has had a diverse journey before she formally joined Shrujan in 1998. She initially joined the family trust run nonprofit organization, Shrujan, as a project coordinator in Kutch to work at the grassroots level and also lead the “Design Center on Wheels” project for the organization, the first of its kind and scale in India. In fact it was her deep involvement and commitment for the operations at Shrujan Trust that led to the genesis of the first of its kind research and documentation project in the Kutch region called “Pride and Enterprise” which documented and researched the embroidery craft story of the Kutch region. Today, Ami has taken forward her mother’s vision and championed yet another successful project under the Shrujan Trust ambit, the Living and Learning Design Center (LLDC). This ambitious project has been launched in a 9 acre green campus in Bhuj

Sanjana Jobalia

‘Do not confuse a window for a mirror and a mirror for beauty.’ Sanjana Jobalia is an IBDP English Literature student at JNIS and loves spoken word. Passionate about empowering women and men to break free from social stereotypes, she has performed and debated at several competitions most notable Agnya, speaking on “Is Homemaking a noble profession’ for HeForShe UN Women Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality. She has written several articles for her school newspaper, performed as the lead actress at The National Centre of Performing Arts and has been the co-writer and supporting actress in a school sponsored crime mystery “The Desmodian Code” which raised money for the Angel Express Foundation. This time, she offers everyone the beauty of a rose, the rose and questions the meaning of ‘no’ in society. Sanjana provides us with insights as to why she’s worth listening! Hear it from the speaker herself! “Throughout my childhood, I have heard the words ‘you can’t’ and ‘no’ in almost all of my experiences as a child and while becoming an adult. I don’t have as much experience as a normal TEDx speaker, I am not as wise, and if you all have been naive once in your life, you will know the power of wanting to prove those words wrong.”