“It’s about creating a way to live with it.” In a sinking city where every rainfall is a wake-up call, this “amphibious design” provides new hope of making room for water. “This park is not about getting rid of flood water,” she says. Bangkok is a flat city, so by inclining the whole park, it harnesses the power of gravity to collect every drop of rain - holding and collecting up to a million gallons of water during severe floods. The park is not only a site for recreation and beautification it also helps the city deal with water through some ingenious design. She and her team designed the Chulalongkorn Centenary Park, a big green crack in the heart of Bangkok and the city’s first new public park in more than three decades. In the years since, she’s worked to combine the ingenuity of modern engineering with the reality of rising sea levels to help cities live with climate change. “Our city’s modern infrastructure - especially our notion to fight floods with concrete - has made us extremely vulnerable to climate uncertainty,” she says. Landscape architect and TED Fellow Kotchakorn Voraakhom comes from Bangkok herself and was displaced, along with millions of others, by the devastating flood that hit Thailand in 2011. At this very moment, 48 major cities across the globe are sinking - cities like New York City, Los Angeles, London, Tokyo, Shanghai and Bangkok, built on the soft ground alongside their rivers. The session starts with an air of anticipation, thanks to multi-instrumentalist Ane Brun‘s opening number, “It All Starts With One.” This cabaret workout for piano and string quartet is based on “the revolution of dreams” of the Arab Spring, written to celebrate “small victories … that little drop that I, as an individual, can add to the flood of change.” Her intimate follow-up number, “You Light My Fire,” is “a statue in the shape of a song” dedicated to the unacknowledged warriors who fight for women’s rights. (He is also a former Grand Knight.Multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Ane Brun kicks off Session 5 with a poised, intimate performance of “It All Starts With One” and “You Light My Fire.” She performs at TEDWomen 2018: Showing Up, on November 29, 2018, in Palm Springs, California. Currently a paraprofessional at South Bend Riley High School, for 12 years he taught theology in Detroit-where he was the first diversity director for the local Knights of Columbus. Jenarío Decarlo Morgan is a native Detroiter, resident of South Bend, husband, and father of two. Motivating Father's Homily with a stirring rendition of a strong Negro spiritual Speaking at rallies, to help Harlem’s neighborhood to a Renaissance, creating opportunity in children’s eyes This magnificent black woman can do it all Mentoring, counseling helping you to feel ten feet tall Her sounds to the heavens or Carnegie Hall Lifting hearts to Jesus in strong vibrant round Quoting dividends to set up capital economics that matters Her authenticity is clear like a lark singing, The intelligence of a library, filled with knowledge and instructionĪ voice like a sparrow that becking enterprising mergers, correlating strategies for tomorrow. In honor of her momentous achievement, Jenarío Morgan offers a poetic reflection: "Her genius" She was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame in 2015 and currently resides in New York City, where she attends the merged parish of St Charles Borromeo, Resurrection and All Saints in Harlem. She is also active in the public square, as a prolific public speaker (having given a TED Talk in 2018) and gospel recording artist. Harris is a finance executive, twice named one of Barron's 100 Most Influential Women in US Finance (including this year) and in 2017 one of Essence Magazine's “Top 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World”. The ceremony will occur during the 176th UND commencement exercises on Sunday, May 23rd. On March 14th, Carla Harris was named the next recipient of Notre Dame University's Laetare Medal, said to be "the most prestigious honor given to American Catholics".
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