Ferial Pearson

This inspirational talk tells the origin story of original Secret Kindness Agents created the Project, the journey of where the Project has been, hear what the research says about kindness education and its effects on students, educators, and their contexts, and learn how they can become Agents themselves.

This session uses Dr. Pearson’s powerful storytelling as a vehicle for learning the importance of representation in learning empathy and broadening perspectives and how the absence of such representation leads to bigotry and discrimination. Dr. Pearson speaks about her experiences post 9/11 as well as more recently and explains why it is not only important to tell our stories, but also why we should listen to the stories of people who are different from us.