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Our Uncommon Stories and How We Tell Them

Obama Foundation Summit

November 20, 2018
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Whether around the campfire or on the screen, we have always used stories to help us make sense of the world. Stories reveal our identities, our cultures, our humanity—and the singular power of a story can unite us, inspire us, and bridge divides toward shared understanding. In this session, we explore different kinds of storytelling and the impact that seeing through someone else eyes can have on one’s own life.

Video Highlights

The Obama Foundation Global Girls Alliance

See the transformative impact education can have for young girls in India through a short film. Then watch the subjects of the film, Laxmi Nishad, Kiran Sahu, and Dr. Urvashi Sahni, share their stories about adolescent girls’ education in India and their dream of a world where every girl can go to school.

Updates

I can be anything I want to be. Education has changed my life. I believe that all girls should fight to get an education.

Kiran Sahu, Global Girls Alliance

Global girls alliance event with a diverse group of women sitting in chairs

People have the beliefs they have because of the experiences that they’ve had.

Tara Westover, author of Educated

Karamo Brown smiles at the audience during his Summit conversation with Tara Westover.

Psychotherapist and Queer Eye Host, Karamo Brown in conversation with author Tara Westover

You belong.

David Sengeh, Obama Foundation Africa Leader and Sierra Leone’s Chief Innovation Officer

Authors Zadie Smith, Yaa Gyasi, and Courtney Martin sit down for a conversation on representation through literature, and how they write the fiction they hope to see in the world.

Authors Zadie Smith, Yaa Gyasi, and Courtney Martin sit down for a conversation on representation through literature, and how they write the fiction they hope to see in the world.

A Day in the Life