Redesigning Our Future

By: Emilee Rae Hibshman Heather White is a leader in sustainability and an expert on environmental policy. Heather's first lecture was called "Communication 101", which taught about nonverbal and verbal communication, as well as how to present your content. Heather White guides the students in an activity about communication. Heather showed the students tricks that she learned from a TED talk about "power posing." The idea of power posing is to pick a pose that makes you feel confident or powerful, then stand in it for two minutes in private before an interview. She also showed the students how to sit properly for both an interview and a TV appearance! Another speech that Heather gave was titled "Mentors: How to Find Them, How to be One, and How to Listen to your Inner Voice." She gave three main points to both find a mentor, and be one. The first step was "Make your own mentors." Heather advised the students to introduce themsel...

Heather White Meets with Redesigning the Future Summit Students   Heather White is the Executive Director of Environmental Working Group (EWG), and she made time to stop by Redesigning the Future to speak with everyone about the importance of communication. We communicate constantly, but we don't always do it well. White provided ways to think about the world, organize those thoughts, and get powerful messages out. White Reaches Out to High School Students Who Will be Our Future Leaders The communication skills program began with a game to get students up and moving and involved in the process of thinking about how we send and receive messages. Students Quickly Came Up with Ideas and Began to Fill the Walls with Words Campers wrote down thoughts on sticky notes and put them on the wall boards. Then White had them take the ideas from across the room and begin to organize those words and thoughts so that they had more than just a jumble of random sticky note ideas...