Governor joins local students, entrepreneurs for discussion of “unknowable future”

April 14, 2017

The event’s keynote panel discussion at the Paramount Theater, “Preparing Youth for an Unknowable Future,” featured Steven Olikara, founding president of the Millennial Action Project; Laura Weidman Powers, co-founder and CEO of Code 2040; and University of Virginia student Keaton Wadzinski, co-founder of ReinventED Lab.

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA| Gov. Terry McAuliffe and several young social entrepreneurs spoke to local students on Thursday at the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Youth Summit, a student-organized event that focused on empowering young people to start businesses and take on societal problems.

The Youth Summit brought about 850 students from public and private high schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County to the Downtown Mall.

The event’s keynote panel discussion at the Paramount Theater, “Preparing Youth for an Unknowable Future,” featured Steven Olikara, founding president of the Millennial Action Project; Laura Weidman Powers, co-founder and CEO of Code 2040; and University of Virginia student Keaton Wadzinski, co-founder of ReinventED Lab.

Olikara’s Millennial Action Project is a national nonpartisan organization that sponsors “Future Caucuses” of young polimakers in the U.S. Congress and state legislatures.

Olikara said that he was inspired to leave his job at the World Bank to found the Millennial Action Project when he realized that Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr. and other prominent Americans left their mark on the nation’s history when they were well under 40 years old.

“They were not white marble statues then,” said Olikara. “They were young, upstart entrepreneurs.”

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Governor joins local students, entrepreneurs for discussion of “unknowable future” ⋅ Charlottesville Tomorrow

Gov. Terry McAuliffe and several young social entrepreneurs spoke to local students on Thursday at the Tom Tom Founders Festival’s Youth Summit, a student-organized event that focused on empowering young people to start businesses and take on societal problems. The Youth Summit brought about 850 students from public and private high schools in Charlottesville and Albemarle County to the Downtown Mall.

Rep. Sara Jacobs

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