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Jul 2023
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Katie Sparkes on Diversity and Creativit...

Richard Ingram
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The CEO of the Lightyear Foundation and Flamingo Chicks talks disability and STEM, the power of diversity, trips to the UN, and the role young people have in making change happen. 

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