In this powerful Talk, Louiza Doran honors her mother's roots and dreams, while also sharing that the right to dream is a fundamental tool for liberation, as It requires us to think outside of what is currently possible. Louiza "Weeze" Doran first began her community oriented work as an equity and liberation educator, strategist and speaker with a healing centered and humanity first ethos. Featured in the NYT, Forbes, BuzzFeed and many more, she is known for her kind and compassionate yet direct approach.
After over a decade in collective liberation work, she turned her focus to the next generation and started the Asafa Collective, a foundation providing an ecosystem of resources supporting young people in their matriculation from secondary school into adulthood. Outside of work Weeze is just as multi-faceted and multi-hyphenated: Podcaster, Cal Alumni, Bay Area native, boxing enthusiast, coffee aficionado, dog mama, beach baby, music lover and so much more. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx