While there’s always a lot going on in TEDxKraków – TEDxKids@Kraków, TEDxKraków Live, TEDxKraków Cinema and many, many more – our team is constantly looking forward to the biggest and greatest of our events – the yearly TEDxKraków conference. The preperations are already going on, so now there’s time for a little treat for you – we’re happy to start our Introducing the Speakers series!
Let us start with Steve Crawshaw, the Director of the Office of the Secretary General at Amnesty International. Steve has travelled around the world as a journalist and human rights advocate and on his way he met real life Don Quixotes, as he says – individuals, who used playful and witty disobedience to fight the system. He then featured them in a book “Small Acts of Resistance”, stating that courage, tenacity and ingenuity are exactly what is needed to change the world. Steve is no stranger to Poland – in 1978-81 he lived in Kraków, and is really happy to come back because living in the city in those troubled times has strongly influenced his understanding of the world.
If you’re interested in the topic and want to know more, you can follow Steve on The Guardian or read the book – we totally recommend it!