Theme: Worlds Imagined

Students from Albuquerque Academy, United World College, Santa Fe Preparatory, and Sandia Preparatory will present on topics including:
Kerol Kaskaviqi, UWC-USA (5 min.)
Sharing Fragments of our Souls

Elisabeth Lawton – Albuquerque Academy
Trashion Fashion Show

Irving Antonio Barrera López - UWC-USA (8-10 min.)
Empowerment: The solution to small and big problems

Natalie Benson – Sandia Preparatory School (Pre-Recorded Video) (6 min.)
Chemo Courage

Thomás Sandoval – UWC-USA
Global Perspective

Lubna Sherieff - UWC-USA (10 min.)
The Secret Truth of War

Jordan Noel, Lysia Salazar, Dominique Ortiz - Albuquerque Academy (10 min.)
Flamenco and Guitar

Margaret Downs—Albuquerque Academy (Pre-recorded Video) (4 min.)
When in Ecuador

Alex Flores, UWC-USA
Nationality in Today’s World

Eliza Ennis, Abigail Williams—Albuquerque Academy
Advocate: Student Newspaper

Eliza Harrison, Santa Fe Preparatory School (maybe Pre-Recorded Video)
Kindle Project. “Changing Households, Changing Communities” (CHCC)

Sometime during the event, visit TEDxYouthLakeVilla on Livestream.
Starting at 11:30
https://new.livestream.com/accounts/50006/TEDxYouthLakeVilla

6400 Wyoming Blvd NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109
United States

Lysia Salazar

Lysia Salazar is a member of the World Dance Class at Albuquerque Academy.

Abigail Williams

Abby Williams is a senior at the Albuquerque Academy. In addition to being the cover story editor on the school newspaper, the Advocate, she is a member of the community service Executive Board and a staff member on the school literary magazine. Recently, she spent 8 weeks volunteering in the Dominican Republic through Amigos de las Americas. She hopes to continue her study of Spanish in college, and hopefully spend more time traveling and experiencing new things. She also plans to pursue a career in global health.

Alex Flores

Alex Flores is currently in his first of the two years he will spend at the United World College (UWC) in Montezuma, New Mexico. He’s always been captivated by the vastness of the world, and that interest has only grown since coming to UWC-USA. As a first-generation American, he heard the words “nationality” and “citizenship” very often, growing up, and has always questioned why the naturalization process is so intensive.

Dominique Ortiz

Dominique Ortiz is a member of the World Dance Class at Albuquerque Academy.

Elisabeth Lawton

Elisabeth Lawton is 16 years old and a junior at Albuquerque Academy. She loves learning about the biological sciences because they reveal the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Elisabeth has been a leader of the Environmental Club since 8th grade. Her goal is to promote a more sustainable, greener world, and inspire others to do the same.

Eliza Ennis

Eliza Ennis is a senior at Albuquerque Academy and is committed to her serving both local and global communities. As Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, The Advocate, she strives to make sure every issue has a voice. She has worked this year to add creative design to the paper, expand readership, and highlight important global and local problems. In addition to her work on paper, she cares about community service, and she enjoys playing soccer and cooking foreign cuisine.

Eliza Ennis and Abigail Williams

Eliza Ennis is a senior at Albuquerque Academy and is committed to her serving both local and global communities. As Editor-in-Chief of the school newspaper, The Advocate, she strives to make sure every issue has a voice. She has worked this year to add creative design to the paper, expand readership, and highlight important global and local problems. Abby Williams is a senior at the Albuquerque Academy. In addition to being the cover story editor on the school newspaper, the Advocate, she is a member of the community service Executive Board and a staff member on the school literary magazine.

Irving Antonio Barrera López

Irving Antonio Barrera López is a Mexican student in UWC-USA. He is interested in changing problems such as violence and inequality in the Mexican society. He has been involved in social projects in his country. One of his goals is to develop his own project to empower young disadvantaged people in Mexico and around the world so that they can be agents of change in their own communities. In UWC, he is enrolled in the Exed activity Samaritan Shelter, where he and his classmates help people in social disadvantage and in the New Mexico Mental Health Institute where they assist and organize activities for the elderly. He wants to be a medic and would like to change the healthcare system in Mexico.

Jordan Noel

Jordan Noelle is an 8th grader at Albuquerque Academy. She is a Flamenco dancer and classical guitarist.

Jordan Noel, Lysia Salazar, and Dominique Ortiz

Jordan Noelle is an 8th grader at Albuquerque Academy. She is a Flamenco dancer and classical guitarist. Lysia Salazar and Dominque Ortiz are members of the World Dance Class at Albuquerque Academy.

Jordan Noelle

Jordan Noelle is an 8th grader at Albuquerque Academy. She is a Flamenco dancer and classical guitarist. Lysia Salazar and Dominique Ortiz are members of the World Dance Class at Albuquerque Academy. Flamenco presented by Jordan, Lysia and Dominique in traditional flamenco dance attire. Jordan plays Sevillanas followed by Tangos choreography.

Jose Tomas Sandoval

Jose Tomas (18) was born in Chile and lived there for 16 years until he came to New Mexico. He is a high school senior at UWC-USA, an international boarding school located in Montezuma, NM. Throughout his high school experience he has experienced very different educational systems, from a normal private religious school to a liberal international boarding school. He was the student council president for his old school during the student movement that developed in his country. The experience of representing his school in various regional assemblies helped him develop many essential skills. In UWC-USA, he has experienced a very different type of education with 200 people from more than 80 nationalities. Being part of such a diverse community taught him a lot about the different educational systems of many countries and regions of the world. He also learned more about the American educational system, by working as a Spanish tutor in a local middle school for the past couple of months.

Kerol Kaskaviqi

This is Kerol Kaskaviqi, an Albanian first-year student at Armand Hammer United World College of the American West. She aspires to create the world she imagines through arts and social activism, such as art exhibitions, orphanage and elderly assistance and environmental sustainability campaigns. In a community such as UWC, she shares with others her worldview as an Albanian and her experience growing up in a country trying to rebuild itself.

Lubna Sherieff

Sixteen years old, Lubna currently represents Australia and India at UWC-USA. Through her involvement with Camden Youth Council, Youth Action NSW, the Australian National Youth Sexual Health Council, NSW Youth Parliament, as a Youth Ambassador for NSW Commission for Young People and Children, and with daily conversations with fellow students from around the world, she has seen first the hand of power of creating a better world navigated by constructive intent and negotiation to create better opportunities for all.

Natalie Benson

Natalie is a Senior at Sandia Preparatory School. She is s Two Time Science Fair Winner, Four Time AAU Junior Olympic Athlete, an Accomplished Pianist and Founder of “Chemo Courage” in partnership with Cancer Services of New Mexico She was Chair of “Chemo Courage” putt-putt golf tournament, Seventh Grade Class President, a Junior National Young Leader Scholar (New Mexico Representative to D. C., Captain of Jump Rope team, Student teacher for Sandia Preparatory Middle School Physical Education Department and a member of the Varsity softball team.

Thomás Sandoval

Jose Tomas (18) was born in Chile and lived there for 16 years of his life until he came to New Mexico. He is a high school senior in UWC-USA, an international boarding school located in Montezuma, NM. Throughout his high school experience he has been able to experience very different educational systems, from a normal private religious school to a liberal international boarding school. Being part of such a diverse community has taught him a lot about the different educational systems of many countries and regions of the world. He has also been able to learn more about the American educational system, by working as a Spanish tutor in a local middle school for the past couple of months.