Talk · UN Transforming Education Summit, New York
In September 2022, a group of UWC graduates and I joined Prince’s Trust International to co-present a session on embedding sustainability in education at the United Nations’ Transforming Education Summit. We centred the presentation on findings from the five-year longitudinal study conducted by researchers at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education.
16 September 2022 · Talk
Faith Abiodun shares his vision for the UWC Movement in a community forum discussing the origins, present, and future of United World Colleges.
In March 2021, I was keynote speaker at Georgetown University Qatar’s 16th Model United Nations Conference. I addressed some of the growing inequities in the world, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. We need a new generation of leaders whose courage, ideas and optimism can help to reimagine our world.
In May 2019, I participated in a documentary project to explore the subject of decolonising education, particularly through the ALA Model African Union (ALAMAU) which I founded. My thoughts on decolonising education are featured at 3:43-3:57; 6:00-6:24; 9:00-9:24; ALAMAU at 32:27-35:10; and xenophobia at 37:03-37:41.