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Ariana Alejandra Gibson: Normalizing Mental Health through Stories and Safe Spaces

Ariana Alejandra Gibson: Normalizing Mental Health through Stories and Safe Spaces

Ariana: Happy to be with you, Spiffy! Our mission at STIGMA is to normalize conversations about mental health through storytelling so that asking for help becomes easier. There are a lot of rallying cries in the world to "normalize conversations about mental health", but if you don't give people a safe space to practice having these challenging conversations for the first time, we won't make progress. At STIGMA, we host events where people can sit in front of a camera and share their stories and we have a mobile app where people can watch those stories or use it as a way to ask for and offer messages of hope to people who understand their lived experiences.

Shashwat Vishwanath: Combating Climate Change With Carbon-Negative Solutions

Shashwat Vishwanath: Combating Climate Change With Carbon-Negative Solutions
Shashwat: It’s my pleasure, Spiffy! GarboCarbo hopes to tackle the climate crisis that is on track to wreak havoc on the entire planet. Climate change is driven by rising CO2 emissions, and coal-fired power plants are responsible for over 46% of the 40 billion tons of emitted CO2. Thus, at GarboCarbo, we make it our goal to combat climate change at its root: power plants. We aim to integrate a carbon-negative solution into industrial plants to not only slow the increasing emissions but to eliminate them entirely in the coming decades.