This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Emily has been working in hip-hop education and teaching an after school media arts program focused on digital storytelling, where students have opportunities to tell stories using photographs, video, music, and voice to tell stories in new and engaging ways.

In an era of message saturation and digital disruption, it can be difficult to cut through the noise, capture attention, and make our voice heard. In this talk, Ashley Fell shows how, even in our world of screens, social media and ever-emerging technology, it is the timeless power of storytelling, harnessing the unmatched visual platform…

In today’s society, we have the tools to be connected anywhere at any time. The scene is repeated almost every day. People will stand in line with their cell phones, to make a call to someone just a few feet away. Remarkable. We may believe we are connected with technology, but in many ways we…

This digital story was created to address the stigma’s of people with intellectual disabilities, and to display how we must work together as a society to remove the false labels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afj1xxCLO7s