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Adora Svitak

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Adora Svitak is a Bay Area-based writer and public speaker who advocates for youth empowerment around the world. In 2010, she delivered the speech ‘What Adults Can Learn from Kids’ at TED. It has received over 5 million views on TED.com alone, and has been translated into more than 40 different languages.

Adora was named one of the ‘30 Top Thinkers Under 30’ by Pacific Standard Magazine and contributes to numerous publications including Huffington Post, Mashable, Women's Media Center, Bust, The Bold Italic, and the TED blog. She has spoken in front of audiences at Google, Mashable and the United Nations. ...more

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Average rating: 3.63 · 101 ratings · 18 reviews · 6 distinct works • Similar authors

	Speak Up!: Speeches by young people to empower and inspire 4.07 avg rating — 45 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying Fingers: Master the Tools of Learning Through the Joy of Writing by Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author), Joyce Svitak 3.23 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2005 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs - What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents (Vol. 1) by Nick Tart, Nick Scheidies, Joe Penna 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Yang in Disguise 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Green My Parents by Tom Feegel, Jordan Howard, Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author) 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dancing Fingers by Adora Svitak (Goodreads Author), Adrianna Svitak 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Adora made a comment on their review of Two Serious Ladies " 3 stars because it was my only book at the airport and it was better than being on my phone "
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Shade: The Promise of a Forgotten Natural Resource by Sam Bloch	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read The Fish Counter (Picador Shorts) by Marion Nestle	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora rated a book liked it Two Serious Ladies by Jane Bowles	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Fell victim to my own shallowness and folly: got sucked in by the cover and Sheila Heti intro into what felt like an ultimately vapid and bloodless storyline. I didn’t care about either of the characters and felt like their own indifference to their ...more
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Adora has read Gerontocracy in America: How the Old Are Hoarding Power and Wealth―and What to Do About It by Samuel Moyn	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read The Land and Its People by David Sedaris	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read A People's History of Soccer: A Graphic Chronicle by Jean-Christophe Deveney	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read City of Rats by Copi	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora has read The Great Shadow: A History of How Sickness Shapes What We Do, Think, Believe, and Buy by Susan Wise Bauer	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Adora rated a book really liked it Why We Swim by Bonnie Tsui (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Listening to this book on a road trip around Washington’s fog-shrouded Olympic Peninsula made me want to dive into the nearest bodies of water (wind-churned lakes, the murderous Pacific), never mind that I don’t really know how to dive and it was chi ...more
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