VIJAYA THAKUR:  How to Overcome an Epic Fail
Channel: IgniteNYC
Date: 15/11/2012

This talk took place at the Ignite NYC 14 event, "Fails, Facepalms and Spinouts: Stories from the Other Side of Failure" event.

Vijaya Thakur is the founder and director of the Resolve Network, a grassroots peacebuilding organization working in Eastern Congo.  In this talk, she shares her lessons of failure in relation to her career in human rights.

http://resolvenetwork.org
http://resolvenetworkblog.wordpress.com 

5 minutes and 20 slides rotating automatically in front of NYC's brightest geeks, what would you say? For nearly two years Ignite NYC has cultivated a vibrant community of artists, technologists, thinkers, tinkerers, and personalities to connect, develop new relationships and projects, and answer this challenge. Enlighten us, but make it quick!

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http://www.slideshare.net/ignitenyc/vijaya-thakur