The Forgotten Middle | Danielle R. Moss

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🗓️ 15 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You know the "forgotten middle": they're the students, coworkers and regular people who are often overlooked because they're seen as neither exceptional nor problematic. How can we empower them to reach their full potential?

In this talk, Danielle R. Moss describes how her mother’s special attention allowed her to climb out of the middle and towards her potential. Now, she offers that same kind of attention to high school students across the country. After the talk, Modupe and Corey explore what it looks like to bring Danielle’s ideas to work.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective.
0:07.6	So Madupe, I have a question for you.
0:10.2	Yep.
0:10.7	As someone who's always admired you and thought of you
0:13.8	as a total superstar, I'm just wondering.
0:16.8	I'm blushing.
0:17.8	He just can't see it.
0:20.3	I'm wondering if you've ever felt sort of average.
0:24.1	Yeah, hello.
0:25.3	I feel average like every darn day.
0:28.3	So it's funny because when you say
0:29.4	that the first thing that comes to me was like,
0:31.4	I was an average English student.
0:33.7	And I was like, I loved math and science.
0:36.3	And I could write OK, but I wasn't a Lizard Marlantis,
0:40.0	who was like one of my best friends who
0:42.0	could write beautifully and amazingly and whatever.
0:46.4	So that was back then.
0:49.8	And yeah, like all the time, I mean,
0:53.1	as an academic, you're in these talks
0:55.1	and people are talking about their highfalutin theory
0:58.3	and whatever.
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