2023 Student Speakers
Bram Corydon Barnes
Bram is an activist historian whose work focuses on the topics of education, epistemic communities, liberation movements, and community organizing. He has 15 years experience in various social and political movements, from immigrant rights to Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, 15 Now!, student government, AFZ, and union organizing. As a Phd and father of two, Bram holds student parent advocacy close to heart, and views raising children as a radical test of our commitment towards a humane and equitable future.
Paul Philip Stewens
Paul Philipp Stewens is a first-year Master’s candidate in International Law at the Geneva Graduate Institute. He holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Technische Universität Dresden. Following a childhood passion for dinosaurs, he now researches the intersection of palaeontology and the law. As one of the few experts in the field, his interdisciplinary work has appeared in both science and law journals. His research has also been featured in Science and The Economist.
Theresa Emily Niklas
Theresa Emily Niklas, from Germany, is a first-year Master in International and Development Studies student in the Gender, Race & Diversity track. Being passionate about music and arts, she is at the same time determined to dedicate her career to contributing to the vision of a gender-equal world and feminist policymaking. In her talk, she will explore the ways in which her feminist convictions, her love for hip-hop, and her personal background interact, contradict, and complement each other.
Wangchok Namgail
Wangchok Namgail is from Ladakh, a region in the trans-himalayan ranges in India. He is a Masters student at the Geneva Graduate Institute specialising in Environment and Sustainability. He has earlier worked with organisations serving the welfare of vulnerable communities in the Himalayan regions for a few years where he saw the challenges from climate change and environmental degradation in the ecologically sensitive region. He aspires to learn and understand these challenges, their causes and the impacts more deeply and wishes to contribute towards their mitigation and long-term sustainable solutions. Through the platform of TedX, he wishes to highlight the impacts of climate change in real-life through stories from the Himalayan communities.
