1M2030 presents

COMING UP NEXT

Special thanks to Siya, Alexander, Rushank, Saumya, Andrew for lending us their voice for the opening theme.

A United Nations Learning Podcast featuring conversations with the next generation of global leaders

The Guests are accomplished young leaders (12-32 years old) from around the world, selected for their outstanding achievements and their unique stories.

Each episode of the Podcast is an informal conversation between our Host Barbara Harrison and between one and three Guests. The Podcast format allows young leaders to share their stories, their expertise, and their advice to other youth – and global decision makers.

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Listen to Episode #1

Coming Up Next: Period Poverty

In Episode 1, our Host Barbara is joined by two young exceptional leaders and a mental health expert to discuss a topic that affects millions around the world but you may have never heard about: Period Poverty.

Learning objectives

After listening to this episode, you should be able to:

Explain the concept of period poverty
Understand the importance of period poverty
Describe how period poverty is linked to the 2030 Agenda

Amika pic.png — **Amika George**

Time Most Influential Teens of 2018 list, The Big Issue Top 100 Changemakers, and Teen Vogue 21 under 21 (nominated by Emma Watson), winner of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Goalkeepers Campaign Award in 2018

Natasha pic.png — **Natasha Sichula**

CEO and Founder of HERZ, African Union G(irl)s Delegate, Clinton Global Foundation Initiative University Fellow, Bill & Melinda Gates 120 under 40 Family planning nominated leader, UNESCO Best Youth Ideas Nominated leader

Dr J pic.png — **Dr. John Weiner**

Board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist. Weekly segment on NBC4 Washington News, contributor to national news outlets including the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC

Episode #2

Coding for Social Good

Episode #2 brings together two young tech geniuses and the Director of a United Nations agency to discuss how technology, and coding and particular, can be a force for good in the world.

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**Avi Schiffmann, Creator, ncov2019.live**

Avi Schiffmann is a 17-year old high school student who **built one of the biggest websites** for worldwide information on the spread of the novel coronavirus, getting about **30 million visitors each day**. He tought himself how to code at 7 years old. In addition to his coronavirus tracker, Avi has made more than 30 other websites. He was offered **$8 million** to put ads on his site, which he turned down.

**Samaira Mehta, Founder & CEO, CoderBunnyz**

Samaira Mehta has taken Silicon Valley by storm and has been a **speaker at over 70 conferences** nationwide. She has held over 160 workshops that spotlight her board game, and **taught over 5,000 kids to code**. She received a letter from then First Lady Michelle Obama and was offered a job at Google.
**Did we mention she’s 12?**

**Sameer Chauhan, Director, UNICC**

Sameer Chauhan was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General as the **Director of the UNICC**, the leading provider of **ITC services within the United Nations System**. Sameer has over twenty years of prior experience in both public and private sectors, including as the COO of Deutsche Bank’s IT department.

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Our Host

Barbara Harrison

BARBARA HARRISON is an award-winning journalist with more than three decades of writing, producing, reporting and anchoring experience at major television stations in New York, San Francisco, Dallas and Washington D.C.

She has garnered Emmy after Emmy – 19 in all – for programs she created as televised specials. Barbara was also honored for Outstanding Achievement by the New York Film Festival for a report from the oil fields of Kuwait after the first Gulf War, with the Ted Yates Award for outstanding community service and she is the recipient of the prestigious Tufty Award for outstanding journalism from Washington.

Now, she wants to help you tell your stories – of people, places, causes, and events – in a way that will grab the audience and make them sit back and enjoy (or learn something they didn’t know) about something that matters to you.