In this talk, Ashanti Branch shares a powerful message on how we often put on masks to survive, for fear of being vulnerable or misunderstood. What masks do you wear? How can we work to take these off, and encourage others to live without theirs as well? He encourages us to take a closer look at the masks we wear and to understand why we wear them
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Read MoreJefferson Award- The Ever forward club inspires high school students for a brighter future.
Read MoreAshanti Branch, Founder of The Ever Forward Club, will be joining us once again to kick off the opening session at Big Ideas Fest 2018. His groundbreaking work helps students and educators all over the world bring their authentic selves to make change.
Read MoreAshanti and his team are true pioneers in the world of youth development.
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Read MoreAshanti Branch: "Taking off the Mask" in the Ever Forward Club held on May 24, 2016
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Read MoreGwen Ifill moderates a diverse panel of experts on the American experience including Michelle Norris, Ai-jen Poo, Joseph Echevarria, James Fallows, Ashanti Branch and Elizabeth Alexander.
Read MoreDuring the 2015-2016 academic year, I was a K-12 Edu Fellow at the Stanford d.school, using design thinking to advance our work to serve more young men.
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Read More2015 Aspen Ideas Awards EFC Pitch:The inaugural Aspen Ideas Award, developed with Booz Allen Hamilton, recognizes innovative ideas from Festival presenters and scholars that impact communities around the world. In this session, five Award Finalists, chosen from over one hundred applicants, will pitch their ideas to a panel of judges in front of a live Festival audience. One Finalist will walk away with $25,000 to bring their idea to action.
Read MoreOakland Tribune - After school club that gives urban boys tools for success expanding
Read MoreAshanti Branch, a leading advocate for boys, joined high school students for Values Day helping them navigate gender and identity misconceptions.
Founder of the Ever Forward Club and school principal by day, Ashanti Branch describes how he prototyped and grew a program into an organization. Drawing from his own needs as a youth, he developed a groundbreaking “emotional tool box” for African American and Latino young men to learn to trust and persevere, face their fears, and bring confidence and empathy into their lives in order to achieve their true potential.
Read MoreAshanti Branch's mission is to create spaces where young people and people young at heart learn to break the chains of pain, anger, sadness and any other emotion that blocks their success.
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