LIVE Conversation with bestselling author
Clint Smith III
Hosted by Matt Scott, creator of Let’s Care & host of the Yes to Youth! Podcast, and featuring alumni of LearnServe International.
Tuesday, April 26th, 2022
4-5pm ET / 1-2pm PT
More about this LIVE Conversation
In the spirit of the 2022 LearnServe Virtual Gala’s theme “The Courage to Change,” we invite you to join a much-needed dialogue with bestselling author Clint Smith.
Join Clint, who is the author of How the Word is Passed, as he sits down with LearnServe community member and impact storyteller Matt Scott (creator of Let’s Care and host of the Yes to Youth Podcast in collaboration with LearnServe) to explore the connection between Clint’s story and LearnServe’s work to unleash the power of young people to create change. They will be joined by LearnServe alumni whose ventures and passion center Black history, racial justice, and leveraging the knowledge of the past to build a brighter future.
About Your Host
Matt Scott is a social and environmental impact storyteller. His work focuses on “passing the mic” to underrepresented, underestimated changemakers. Matt is the founder of Let’s Care, where he’s released the film 20s & Change: San Francisco – honored at the San Francisco Black Film Festival and Las Vegas Queer Film Festival – and interviewed 100+ changemakers to-date. Recently, in his full-time career in the climate space, he launched the first season of Drawdown’s Neighborhood, a climate solutions short documentary inviting communities to discover solutions and take action. Matt has been a LearnServe volunteer since 2015 and, in addition to being part of the organization’s Growth Council, created the Yes to Youth! podcast.
Matt has experience creating impact storytelling and engagement initiatives and campaigns alongside partners including Nike, USAID, Pivotal Ventures by Melinda Gates, the Australian Government, and the Obama White House. From 2016 to 2020, he helped engage more than 100,000 people from 150+ countries in the world’s largest global hackathon, NASA’s International Space Apps Challenge, serving as the global community lead and storyteller. Throughout his career, Matt has reached more than half a billion people in the digital space.
