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Keynotes Sessions

Josephine Kennedy, World Learning Organization : Monday March 12th 9:30-10:30

Angelica Silvero, World Bank : Monday March 12th 1:05-1:55

Clardav Goutou-Nkoli, Miss Congo Brazzaville : Tuesday March 13th 9:30-10:30

Chase Small, Paper Airplanes: Tuesday March 13th 11:00 - 12:00 

Dr. Omekongo Dibinga, UPstander International : Tuesday March 13th 1:05-1:50


AMBITIOUS MIDDLE SCHOOLER, MISS CONGO BRAZZAVILLE, PUTS HER HEART ON HER HAND

Miss Congo Brazzaville 2017 is giving a voice to the U.S. Congolese community. She is a spokesperson for an organization that provides shoes, books and other supplies to the widows, orphans and Pygmy people of the Congo. She is also in 8th grade. 
Clardav Goutou-Nkoli is reigning Miss. Congo Brazzaville and a student at Briggs Chaney Middle School. She is the brandperson for the charitable organization, Le Coeur Sur La Main. Most recently, she was a keynote speaker for the DC GIN conference at George Washington University. “I’ve gotten to this point by basically working hard and prioritizing by having a goal that I can work to achieve,” she said. 
Goutou-Nkoli, as Miss Congo Brazzaville, gives a voice to both the Congolese-American community as well as those suffering strife and oppression in the Republic of the Congo. She never wanted to be Miss Congo Brazzaville because of what she looked like, but instead because of what she wanted to do to help those in need. She said, “I believe that beauty is not only on the outside but how you can help improve the world.”

- Greamo

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GIN and Reducing World Poverty - Keynote by Angelica Silvero, WB

Angelica Silvero, head of the World Bank Group Speakers Bureau, spoke at the Global Issues Network conference on March 12 about how she works to reduce poverty and fix world issues through partnerships with other countries and organizations.
Mrs. Silvero presented in front of over 150 students at the conference in hopes of educating them on the work of the World Bank and the role of their various agencies in developing middle and low-income countries around the world.
“It’s important that you help so people can have their own lives. This isn’t money as charity, this is money so they can work so that everybody wins,” Mrs. Silvero said.

- Westermann


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Chase Small of Paper Airplanes Presents

Chase Small, a recent high school graduate and staff member at the organization Paper Airplanes passionately discussed his journey to the organization at the 2018 GIN Conference. He explained what his role is in the organization and his hopes for what is yet to come and how he will achieve this once he starts college in the fall of 2018. 
Paper Airplanes is a nonprofit organization which uses Skype to provide free one-on-one language lessons to people affected by conflict around the world so they can pursue their education, secure their future, and ultimately, rebuild their lives. There are multiple sectors in the organization including the main “Language Program” consisting of Arabic and English; the “Youth Exchange Program” and the new “Professional Skills Program.” 
The Youth Exchange Program, which is managed by Small, was founded to connect to English speaking high school students specifically. The program, which is in the form of a school club, allows the students in the club to engage with other students around the world who are seeking education in the English language. Once the English-speaking high school is enrolled in the program, the students in the club are matched up individually based on similar interests to conflict-affected high school students to tutor them in English online.For the program, which usually lasts for one school year, tutors video chat with their students for an hour a week, ensuring that they are fostering not only a good foundation in the English language, but also fostering a friendship and support system for the student affected by issues in their community.
- Davitan


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Breakout Sessions​

Naomi Schater - Reading Partners
Yara Mowafy - Syrian American Medical Society
Leah Nichles - Talent Beyond Borders
Nueteki Akutteh - British Embassy
Isra Chaker - Oxfam
Fundred
The Botswanan Embassy
Student Presentation Breakouts:
  1. Gun Violence - Bullis School
  2. Food conservation - Bullis School
  3. The American Justice System: A broken Institution - Ye’amlak Zegeye 
  4. Gender Stereotypes in Children's Literature and Rape Culture - Celeste Bloom 
  5. Operation Smile - Yousef & Jasper
  6. SDGs & Tanzania / Sofia, Grace & Ava 
  7. Beyond the Stereotype - Faysal Al-kibbi 
  8.  Rape Culture - Lulu Moore & Charlotte Westermann  ​

THE SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY PRESENTS AT GIN 2018

Yara Mowafy, a representative from the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) was at the Global Issues Network Conference, presenting about her work on running projects in the refugee crisis outside of Syria.
The Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference, is a conference where anyone can discuss what they are truly passionate about and influence others to what they want to do with their life, and Mowafy is no different. “When you are working on disaster relief, of course your goal is to end the disaster. I guess the goal was to have a peaceful end in the crisis in Syria. In addition, I guess working on restructuring,” Mowafy discusses “…redeveloping Syrian healthcare system, healthcare facilities, retraining of staff, and again, the infrastructure.”
- Underland
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Reading Partners: Why It Matters

On Monday, March 12th at the Global Issues Network (GIN) Conference, Reading Partner’s Community Engagement Director, Naomi Shachter gave a presentation about the organization and how students can get involved into it.
The GIN Conference is a student-led organized event which values community building. This year marks the fourth time that this event was held and organized by a cooperation between School Without Walls and WIS. An important part of the event were the “ Breakout Sessions”, one of them coming from the Reading Partnersorganization. 
Reading Partners engages community volunteers in one on one literacy tutoring with elementary students who are struggling with reading. They partner with schools which educate low-income families and they serve students by helping them read. They pair them with volunteers and with the help of a curriculum they help students catch up to grade level.
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- Vidovic


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    • Leadership
    • About DC
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  • This Year
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  • Past Conferences
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      • Keynote & Breakout Sessions
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