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Bonus Episode 09 – Trailblazers Magazine – Interview with Anya Smith-Roman and Abigail Emerson

Lynn Fuini-Hetten and Randy Ziegenfuss

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In this Bonus Episode of Shift Your Paradigm, we are speaking with Anya Smith-Roman and Abigail Emerson, founders of Trailblazers Magazine, a magazine driven and written by students about the education transformation movement.

Anya is a 2017 graduate of the Innovation Diploma and currently a second-year student at Georgia Institute for Technology studying to become a social entrepreneur with a major in Business and certificate in Social Psychology. Since high school, she has been striving to forward the Education Transformation Movement by networking with thought leaders around the world, speaking and coaching at education conferences, and being a pioneer of innovative learner-centered education practices. She is driven by the goal to have student voice at the forefront of the Education Transformation Movement. Anya dreams of a future where “school” consists of students working side-by-side with business leaders to design for pressing issues in the world.

Abigail is a creator looking for new ways to solve problems. She is an Innovations Diploma and Mount Vernon Presbyterian School 2018 graduate and freshman at NC State studying Industrial Design. Always keeping a positive outlook on situations, her favorite pastime is giving out high-fives and telling puns and jokes. Abigail strives to inspire and empower other students to believe that they can make a change now and don’t have to wait until they’re “older” and “wiser” to start.

Resources shared during our conversation