How to turn around a city | Irma L. Olguin Jr.

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🗓️ 23 November 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Computer skills aren't what's stopping people from breaking into the tech industry, says social entrepreneur Irma L. Olguin Jr. More often, the biggest hurdles are things like access to childcare, transportation and financial stability. In this visionary talk, Olguin Jr. introduces the work she's done to uplift and empower people in her community in Fresno, California -- and shows how it can be a model to elevate "underdog" communities across the world.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Ted Talks daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:07.2	Today's speaker does a lot of thinking about cities and the way people interact with
0:11.7	each other.
0:12.8	In her archive talk from Ted Monterey in 2021, social entrepreneur Irma Olguin Jr. shares
0:19.2	the empowering ways she has found to uplift her city that can be applied to cities near
0:24.7	you.
0:25.7	She's coming after a short sponsor message.
0:31.0	Support for Ted Talks daily comes from AirBnB.
0:33.9	Okay, every time you stay at an AirBnB, do you ever wonder, could my place at home actually
0:39.9	be an AirBnB could I rent it out?
0:42.4	And if I could, what would it earn?
0:44.6	I think about this sometimes, myself.
0:47.0	So I was pretty surprised to hear about Lucy and Worcestershire, who realized she could
0:52.0	convert her empty barn space into a one bedroom AirBnB.
0:56.4	How creative, right?
0:57.7	Now her extra income allows her to focus on her family as a new mom.
1:01.9	Find out what your place could be earning at arabianbe.co.uk slash host.
1:09.9	Fresno and the entire Central Valley of California is a place that's built by agriculture.
1:15.9	Miles and miles of farmland for as far as the eye can see with a couple of large poor
1:20.7	cities dotting the landscape.
1:23.5	That's where I'm from, where I was born and where I lived today.
1:27.8	My family, like much of the local population, is a family of immigrant farm laborers.
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