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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 rated a book it was amazing Change by Édouard Louis	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
I’ll read everything this man writes! No better chronicler of the stigmata (to use Bourdieu’s terming, I think) etched on the body of the upwardly mobile
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Taiwan Travelogue by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ	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
This book really snuck up on me! Encountering the first few pages of lavish food descriptions, I was like is this all a whimsical food blogger cosplaying as a translation frame story? At the end I was almost crying but also happy and hungry and full.
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Adora rated a book it was amazing Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden	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
one fascinating insight from sociology of elites is that in the upper echelons of society even highly educated and professionally accomplished women often take a step back from the paid workforce. this book illustrated some of the ugliness and cost o ...more
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Conflicted here! The book is strong in its observations of alienation at work and sexual desire as a propulsive force. In the latter regard it reminded me a lot of Lillian Fishman’s book Acts of Service, which I think is more explicitly discussed by ...more
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