Antoinette D. Carroll: Lecture Analysis

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For this essay I’m going to write about the lecture yesterday night by Antoinette D. Carroll. This lecture was called “Designing Impact: Inclusion and Equity for Civic Change”. Carroll is the founder and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab. She is also a workaholic and a Ted fellow. Personally, I absolutely loved this lecture. At the beginning of the lecture, she asked the audience is we wanted to change the world and everyone raised their hand. She then asked if any of us thought we could or were changing the world and only two or three people raised their hands. I found this really interesting and it really set the mood for the rest of the lecture. She started out strong and got us interested immediately and kept our interest throughout the whole lecture which is rare. Throughout the lecture, she discussed her different projects and the different fails that a lot of the projects went through. Carroll talked about how failure is on a spectrum and the lessons …show more content…

Determine your mission, 2. Immerse yourself and be on the ground, 3. Collaborate, 4. Think participatory, 5. Consider the impact of diversity and equity, 6. Build and disrupt power with your expertise and share it, 7. Build authentic relationships with communities, 8. Work with humility and empathy, not one or the other. I really enjoyed hearing all of these. No other lecture has been like this one. She was really engaged with us as an audience which make the lecture personal to me. I felt so much more involved.. Not only her work, but her as a designer was inspiring to me. The final thing she said was “if you’re not happy with what you’re doing, you won’t be happy at home”. This really stuck with me because I constantly meet people who are just majoring in something for the money and that has always really confused me. Since I was little I have only ever been interested in jobs that I know I will enjoy. I’ve never been focused on the money part of

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