From Screen to Classroom: How Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci Engage Students with Real-World Stories

From Screen to Classroom: How Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci Engage Students with Real-World Stories

Filmmakers Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci are using their award-winning documentaries to bridge divides and inspire change. By bringing their dynamic film screenings and keynote presentations to colleges and K-12 schools, they empower students to engage with global issues through powerful storytelling.

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This is not financial advice: How TikTok and influencers changed the landscape of investing

This is not financial advice: How TikTok and influencers changed the landscape of investing

Many were and still are woefully unprepared for how to manage their dollars in this fast and unpredictable modern economy. Armed with this knowledge, award-winning documentarians Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci spent the last few years documenting this experience with an aim to help millions of adults and young people learn how to be smarter investors in their new film, This Is Not Financial Advice, premiering at Tribeca Film Festival.

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New Speaker Mary L. Gray Explores How Everyday Technology & AI Transforms Us

Outspoken is pleased to announce our newest speaker, anthropologist, technologist and media scholar, Mary L. Gray, who is a leading expert in the emerging field of AI and ethics. She has long researched how people’s everyday use of technologies (including artificial intelligence) transform labor, identity and human rights—for better and worse.

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Visionary Videos: Sam Polk @ Chicago Ideas Week

When the market collapsed in 2007, Sam Polk had money, power and prestige—the three attributes he had craved most. But Polk found himself dissatisfied, and he left his lucrative position at a hedge fund to pursue a more grounded life. Hear how Sam learned to embrace the extraordinary wonder of an ordinary life, now co-founder and CEO of Everytable, a social enterprise for meals and founder and Executive Director of Groceryships, a nonprofit that helps low-income families struggling with food-related illnesses like obesity and diabetes.