tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1165852819982349153.post-52371142303507820702008-05-11T17:35:00.001-04:002008-05-11T17:37:56.566-04:00<p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Entering the 'Millennials and the Moment' session, I scanned the room and noticed a much wider and well-distributed range of generations in the crowd.<span style=""> </span>After a few days milling around in the Gaylord, I realized that I now recognized many in the once-indiscernible herd of philanthropists.<span style=""> </span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">The panelists Cassie, Eddie, Andrew, and Carmen maturely reflected on their leadership experiences.<span style=""> </span>Particularly striking points below:</span></p> <ul style="margin-left: 0.5in; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;" type="disc"><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Cassie started Campus Climate Challenge and hosted a conference of over 6,000 environmentalists featuring Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Eddie started an organization for improvement of public housing in Oregon - at the age of twenty.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Andrew, a young City Councilperson from Tallahassee, wanted more opportunity to network with other young elected officials so he started an organization that now serves over 400 young elected officials.</span></li><li style="margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; vertical-align: middle;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Carmen is the Vice President of USSA a student-led and -run organization that advocates for educational equality.</span></li></ul> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> </span></p> <p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0in; font-family: courier new;font-family:courier new;font-size:10pt;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Other than talking about their specific experiences, the students made the salient point that ours is the most diverse generation in US history and that it is up to us to reverse the polarization perpetuated by past generations.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-2482491202908585"; google_ad_width = 728; google_ad_height = 90; google_ad_format = "728x90_as"; google_ad_type = "image"; google_ad_channel = ""; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script></div>Brittanynoreply@blogger.com