Activism, changemakers and hope for the future | Malala Yousafzai

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🗓️ 18 July 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Education activist (and recent Oxford graduate) Malala Yousafzai reflects on the defining moments of her life, how she balances passion with personhood and where the world finds itself during the COVID-19 crisis. With humor and humility, she shares her dreams of seeing social progress in her lifetime, explains why girls education advocacy must not relent during the pandemic and champions youth activists worldwide leading the fight for a fairer future for all. (This virtual conversation, hosted by TED's current affairs curator Whitney Pennington Rodgers, was recorded July 8, 2020.)

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0:00.0	You're listening to TED Talks Daily. I'm your host, Elise Hugh. Today on the show, we have
0:08.4	activist Malala Yusufzai. You might remember her from when the Taliban attacked her at age 15,
0:14.6	nearly killing her because of her outspoken advocacy for girls' education. In her TED 2020
0:20.3	conversation with Ted's current affairs curator,
0:22.9	Whitney Pennington Rogers, she encourages us to stay hopeful in this time of crisis, but reminds us
0:29.0	that the issues she fights for, girls' education and women's empowerment, are key to rebuilding
0:34.7	after COVID-19.
0:43.0	I am absolutely thrilled to welcome Malala, Yusuf Sae.
0:44.0	Thank you so much.
0:48.5	And, you know, first and foremost, congratulations on your graduation. That is amazing.
0:55.4	You recently tweeted that there will be lots of sleeping, reading, and Netflix in your future. And so, you know,
0:59.9	how does it feel to be finished with college? And what have you been up to these past couple weeks? So to be honest, my exams were really long. There were a month-long exams and I was just
1:06.7	exhausted. I needed a long, long break. Right now, I am allowing myself. I'm just saying that,
1:12.7	okay, you are allowed to do this for a bit because you need a bit of rest and a bit of break.
1:16.7	So so far, it's spending time with family, resetting my room, because it still looked like a high school
1:22.2	girls' room and I was like, I'm a graduate now. I need to change my room setting just to feel
1:26.6	a bit older, you know,
1:28.5	to see that transformation around me as well, as much as I see it within me. And now I am
1:35.2	unemployed, looking for jobs at home. But I'm really happy. I'm really, you know, just so excited
1:40.8	and overwhelmed that I have graduated from Oxford. I finished my undergraduate in
1:46.5	philosophy, politics, and economics in the past three years have been incredible. I have grown so much.
1:52.5	I have learned so much from my friends, tutors, and professors and everything that I saw there.
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