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And everything was gone. Sometimes the bigger they are the bigger the price they paid, and thats certainly true of kobe bryant. With everything thats going on these days. It is sometimes easy to miss the dramatic positive changes that are happening in the world across commerce and Technology Health and the arts. Vast improvements are taking hold, driven mostly by ordinary people who dont often make headlines. But they sure do make a difference. And tonight hell meet them this is champions for change. Welcome the champions for change. Im dr. Sanjay gupta. In the next hour, youre going to meet some really innovative people. Each one quietly reshaping old ideas and dramatically improving the way we all live our lives. Later, ill introduce you to my champion for change but first, were going to hit the waves with one of hawaii is renowned surfers who also happens to be a top scientist. Hes inspiring a new way for researchers and everyone else to look at the ocean its a familial relationship that we have as native boyens with the coral reef we have a Creation Story that emphasizes life the starts with the coral its like greatest grandmother my name is cliff cupp bono. Im from ela, hawaii and im a surfer and a scientist this one beat, one big lego is a Science Research group, essentially, but were not the average scientists where a bunch of surfers and skater prison artists, we developed technology to protect our ocean and we provided to communities who need it the most ive come to realize that some of the most creative individuals are not necessarily formally trained in academia and not to say those degrees arent important. Ive just filed especially here in the islands, theres so much Creativity It Intelligence at surrounded by being a part of nature we met many years ago and we shared a feeling that in the conventional science framework you were expected to be very one track. Cliffs, renowned surfer. I loved to fish, serve skateboard like all these things that we kind of had the hide as being parts of ourselves, you see all these little me and dryness though . Yeah. And so early on in that academic journey, we sort of valid like, have we ever get to the position that we we have phds and lets do it differently if you have a particular skill set that can help us develop technology to protect our ocean, whether theyre artists who also love chemistry, or whether theyre musicians who also enjoy doing statistics the weirder you are, the more we want you here we wanted to create the worlds greatest underwater observatory, which was ambitious for sure, but we love a good challenge over oneandahalf Million People watch this we should be able to see john panini of the camera is given no good wipe down the heart of it is a camera that streams live 24 7 right away, we started capturing Wildlife Interactions and organisms that are typically never seen when theres a human in the environment coral reefs are foundational to stabilize an ecosystem there are estimates that by the year 2050 up to 80 of the coral reefs could be lost. So we have this ambitious goal over the next six years to map 1 million reefs by 2030. And how we want to get there . Despite training 10,000 mappers with a simple iphone or gopro, anyone can do it i like to think about my ancestors who ive never met, but they were thinking about me seven generations before me. And i want to make sure that seven generations down the road can enjoy what a beautiful place we have today. Tomorrow while the ocean is majestic, it can also be dangerous and powerful. There arent many Natural Forces stronger than a hurricane but a mothers protective instincts might just be one of those forces cnns chief climate correspondent bill, were met a mom on a mission with a new way to Fortify Homes against storms the most powerful storm ever to make landfall on the florida panhandle. The window to evacuate wait. Is closed. I remember watching tv and thinking if this stays on the same path, were not going to make it and its too late to leave. Im originally from seattle, washington, and i met my husband up there. I was bartending and he was Playing Freshness Football for the seattle seahawks. We were having our first baby and so we purchased a home in the gulf coast right outside of destin. We had ava my first baby girl. When Hurricane Michael hit 12 weeks later doors stay away from windows when code actually where i live is about 115 miles an hour. And Hurricane Michael was well beyond that already, the storm continued to shift. And then unfortunately hit Mexico City Beach its where it was complete and total devastation and absolutely heartbreaking the next morning when i woke up, there was a fire in me that this isnt right. I cant live from june to october every single year, hoping that a storm does not come and kill me in my my kids and so driven purely by a desire to protect her own family that rubin became an accidental pioneer in the field of disaster proofing construction. He had no experience in construction or business of lists it all no. I went down this rabbit hole of how do we build a 45 structure . Some of that, and thats church brought up medulla or m2, say 40 yearold italian in Company Created by an engineer who discovered a really easy to construct method to build a home. I could stand up to an earthquake. Basically came up with a styrofoam and steel mesh sandwich on concrete. Read, first you make these panels any shape you want, round, straight. It can be a roof that could be stairs, it could be a party french, it could be an airport. And then it is covered with Scramble Concrete would these panels have thats great. Is that theyre way more waterproof. Than a traditional coconstruction tail. So if you see that building over there, the roofs not even finished, its not even waterproofed and it just rained like three days in a row and not one droplet got into the second floor . We have a 250 mile an hour wind rating, tours 50 yeah. Which theyre actually has never been hurt. Right . That would be a category not but yeah, theres never been a hurricane that passed before as a climate reporter slash dad, i tend to measure Global Trends against lifetime of my kids just in the four years since my Little Boy River was born, there have been over at separate billiondollar disasters. Just in the us as the planet over were heats under a blanket of Fossil Fuel Pollution it is clear the way we think about shelter has to evolve. I think people are hungry for something different, and i thank as a construction community, theres theres enough people coming up in the next generation that really want to learn these new innovative things now what we saw over and over again protecting family, thats a powerful motivator when it comes to innovation and when we come back, were going to meet such a family. They built this thriving business from the ground up, specifically designed to make sure theyre autistic son and other people on the spectrum can really shy jellybeans, virtue is presented by Charles Schwab bone, your tomorrow. Goh to cnn. Com slash champions to learn turnabout the pioneers using courage, grit, and creativity to move Society Forward and exciting and Inspiring Ways Trees dont have hearts, but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every. In night, a tree gets a little bit bigger. And every day when the suns on its leaves, it actually shrinks just a teeny. And that motion which is less than a human hair is what we measure that the treatment all right, so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags thats pretty well in there. Start the tree tag, right so this is row 21 tree nine im graham hein, cofounder and ceo of the plant. Im roger hi in grams, younger brother and cto new land treys cat cry out for help. So how do we get is they have this tree tag on them . Yeah, so we give them a tree tag and now they can ask for help the real challenges how do we look at the data from millions and millions of trees together we spent a long time figuring out how to he likes data from the ocean as a completely different environment, but its a really similar technical problem one of my fondest memories is roger in the garage cranking away on nuts and bolts on the way glider. This is the pressure activated relief and dad with a Foam Surfboard carving away at it covered in phone there are a wave letters and erosion that the planet bringing data back as we speak values really come from our parents. Lets ones next, dads invented airplanes and wheels for lunar rover and snow vehicles. Hes still an inventor at heart and we have the narrative from him. Are mama i think has always been trying to get us outside she just loves the outdoors, which really led us to create things which could help the environment so how. Long do you think these trees are trees are . The lungs and he planet. With the plan our mission is to help keep the worlds Trees Healthy us as a connect tariff for the Tree Universe to the cloud and ai, whose trees that this transition from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet is something that i feel really passionately about welcome back the champions for change if you dont, wind experts can find a variety of nuances in a single bottle. But at the same time, theres never been much diversity among the people running the industry. But now a bold winemaker is fermenting some big changes in the business traveling wine or so synonymous with each other its more African American begin to see the world and it had these great experiences. Wine is becoming much more of a pinpoint or passion point for their lives. The age of the old white man drinking wine is over we dont start to make this industry look the way the world works. Its not going to go much further. Theres a berry and wine that goes beyond just whats in the bottle. Theres a communication disconnect, theres a lapse and the two entities knowing how to speak to each other being the black community in the Wine Industry i launched a brand with the intention to really just diverse the body one inch fee. We believe we are the connector. The Fet Wind Company now is the number one imported luxury french wine company from the south of france i started in the business and 2000, 1002 that i was always one of only one in the room from a black person stamp or a black male in particular its super rare to find black owned Wind Companies in the us. Theres less than 1 . How do we help be a steward for this changing every aspect from the Wine Industry . And bring more people of color and especially more black americans introduce trillion Dollar Industry that to the post george floyd movement. And we saw a lot of Racial Injustice in the world. I was made aware of the route spine for me. They shared a mission when we had or i had which was how do we make the industry more diverse . I appreciate all of you for coming tonight and supporting our organization. The roofs when is creating a way for people of color to get the education . So get the mentor ship so that they are ready to be out working and then to get a career in this business. As part of our participation in the roots fund, we are huge supporters of the rooted in france initiative. My winery and winds are in france and i know the beauty of the old world to hear that they were wanting to send students to burgundy into work in this historic winemaking region. I had that experience. It was important to be able to foster for minorities, especially black kids who wanted to learn more about wine to give them that cultural experience of france, while also giving them the experience of working in the Wine Industry a lot of people think im over there just tasting wine and frolicking through the vineyards. Youre doing accounting logistics, supply chain, marketing, things of that nature with one and spirits based case studies dong nai, the roots fund, theyre giving seeing opportunities in terms of employment, internships mentorship, a network or community for me to see these kids come back and then further themselves to now go work okay. Wine is amazing from day one. Its been our goal to disrupt the industry and take down the big boys and when you have that sort of mission in place you recognize the underdogs and you want to give opportunities to the underdogs and we will forever foster those programs and initiatives they give a voice and a platform to those that are not expected to succeed and you know that expectation to succeed can also allude people on the Autism Spectrum, especially in the workplace. But one family designed a car wash specifically with neurodivergent workers in mind. And now theyre concept is cleaning up recreation arising tide hey guys, doesnt go as day. It was love and duty im michele rising tide is to empower people with autism and related disability through Gainful Employment Car Wash Industry Andrew is my younger brother, and andrew has autism. Andrews diagnosis came when he was about twoandahalf to three years theres all as he got a little older, it became obvious that in order for andrew to to live a full adult life, wed have to take action so you. Start to say to yourself, whats going to happen when im gone. I was sitting in a car wash one day. They said, andrew can do that so i decided i would create a the business help andrew where he could work. He needed community be surrounded like people like him this truly is a Family Business so andrew is yet the makes his lunch and hes ready to go to work andrew has a life, he has an identity flavor rising tide was amazing for me. About 80 of our staff is on the Autism Spectrum the first thing that we do is try to look at the workplace through our employees eyes we designed to paddle. Now, instead of having a lot of difficult social interactions, we have a smooth process for both our team our customers. We clarify the workplace for our team members through a variety of systems and we try to embed training into the work please wherever we can, if a team member forgets how to do something, they can quickly scan a qr code, review the training, and get back to work. We use color codes as much as possible. Tube wells going arising, tide car wash. Here, i feel like hey guys, ive just been able to learn more and grow as a person and as a professional, i want to be a manager. My new my new goal is travel. By saving money it is an accepting place, is like a proof that people with autism can leave. You can just see noem judge, witches by one certain aspect of autism because everybody with autism is different our team members are incredibly talented but this world has not been designed for them my hope is that they find the confidence that they can do the thing things they want to do in this world empowering society. One person at a time that is a consistent theme among our champions for change and after the break, and engineers breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence is now helping veterans who lost limbs hold on hope trees, dont have hearts but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every night, a tree gets a little bit bigger and every day it actually shrinks just a teeny bit. And that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure for what the tree tag all right, so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags so this is row 21, tree nine, trees are the lungs of the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the worlds tree this is healthy. Think of us as a connector for the Tree Universe to the cloud and to ai from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet its something that i feel really passionately about engineered to minimize noise and built for adventure which can also be your own quiet kanban in the ones the fully electric qa in charge in an Electric Vehicle that recharges. You how again . Matters weve the lazy declare that we will reply. We feel inclined. Weve checked off our to do list. Now were checking off hard to don list we the lazy or taking back lazy and are lazy boy and theyre all coming . Those who are still with us, yes. Grandpa whats this . Your wings. Light em up gentlemen, its a beautiful. Day to fly. Absolutely free text him. Oh yeah unt the 369369 Artificial Intelligence technology that can help machines learn isnt and mimic human intellect. Well, it soon, maybe able to help amputees feel whole again our next champion for change is at the forefront of that, helping veterans from his country who lost limbs during war the not sure homeless. One of the missions at night, up to walking through the passage, i had grenade thrown at me which when i regained consciousness in the er room, i didnt have hands what you can say and i was hoping until the very end that it wasnt him once the war started, we understood that has per hand can help a lot of ukrainians im which will need from ukraine i left one day before the war started we started as probiotics because we believe robotics will unlock many technologists four all humanity to live longer and feel more active wife as per hand, is a bianna cant and it can give who back many functions as per hand, understands User Behavior and helps to choose right grip and advance because of ai also it detects muscle select tv2 since my start off working in prosthetics, i was always looking for a product that will be more reliable in aesthetically fit. When v matt v is dima v said a huge potential of working together for this foundation is one of our favorite partners with cell o of her device was a price of Manufacturing Cost to protest foundation, and design, install it for free, to enduser its social duty for us. Its not a Business Market Program Works where people come three weeks to six months. We bring them to clinic, get them fitted, so there every day come in do exercising and do Physical Therapy for me pretax were made in such a wait that time returning back to the army proximately, 40 of patients that be fitted when back to front frontline. Its shocks me. But z are looking for opportunity to go back and held in my job. I feel very blessed that i can see people being restored functions that they lost during this injury it is hard to beaten involved in all those but his weight easier when you see how it out helps people it is always inspiring to see medical technology helping people. But not all breakthroughs last forever. One of my biggest worries as a doctor is the rapidly growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. Its a modernday problem, but one champion is now turning to an ancient source to help solve it. Plants are everything there. What provide our food . Our Housing Materials are Musical Instruments are clothing, and our medicines when i look at a plant, im looking to its chemistry and try trying to understand the secrets that may unveil new medicines the use of plants as medicines goes back to the very origins of humanity, is 34,000 species have been documented as being used in some form of Traditional Medicine yet scientists have only looked at around 1,000 isnt of these plants ive traveled to some incredible places across the world in my search for natures next medicines were looking for the next type of antibiotic the work that i do is deeply personal i was born with multiple congenital defects of my skeletal system, which required the amputation of my leg at the age of three i developed a Hospital Acquired Infection that nearly took my life luckily, back in the 1980s, we still had antibiotics that worked against some of these really bad bacteria. Today, were not so fortunate a lot of our antibiotics have been around for a long time and the pathogenic bacteria continue to develop resistance to them unless you come up with a continuous supply of new antibiotics acting by new mechanisms is not just enough to have a new antibiotic over 1 Million People die every year due to untreatable infections. And so ive dedicated my life to searching for new medicines from nature for, to combat the worst of these drug resistant infections we, collect plants in the field. We press them and deposit them into an herbarium, which is like a library of life we also take samples back to the lab where we pull out the chemistry from the plant weve discovered molecules and these plants that are very effective and the treatment of the worst drug resistant bacteria including mrsa or drug resistant staph the next phase of our research involves moving mean these discoveries from the lab to human clinical trials. We could see a scenario in 102030 years where the infections are not responsive to any type of antibiotic. And for that reason, dr. Ways work is essential to help prevent that from happening around 45 of all flowering plants are at risk of extinction were losing vast opportunities to alleviate Human Suffering and to treat disease this is not just about saving nature for nature sake. This is about about saving humanity. Theres a lot of work that has to be done from public health. Two personal addiction after the break, youre going to meet my champion for change and see his powerful approach to fighting teen Substance Abuse trees. Dont have hearts but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every knight a tree gets a little bit bigger and every day it actually shrinks just a teeny bit and that motion which has less than a human hair, is what we measure with the tree tag all, right so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags so this is wrong 21, tree nine trees are the lungs of the planet with the plan, our mission is to help keep the worlds Trees Healthy. Thing us as a connector for the Tree Universe to the cloud and to ai from being people on a planet to being actually the caretakers of the planet is something that i feel really passionately about we talked about cash 11, hard, not again, static. Talking about cashback, we talking about cash back here. Ive are not talking about bragg we talked about cash back and we talk about cash. We talked about cash weve been talking about practice for too long. Word, no practice. We talked about cashback, talking about cashback. I mean, were not talking about a guy. 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Dont miss out on our fastest speed plans yet switch to Comcast Business and get started for 49. 99 a month. Plus, ask how to get up to an 800 prepaid card. Call today buddy mattsons Get One Breed are only 24, 95 each by more than liebermann at the pentagon. And this cnn welcome back to champions for change. Im dr. Sanjay gupta. Tonight we are spotlighting visionary were sparking huge improvements. Sometimes with one big idea, and sometimes through countless small ones. Our next champion is Weaving Community and providing warmth to societys most vulnerable what would you do if you ended up having a Family Member experience homelessness that was the question that i really was wrestling with one of my mom ended up on the street when i tried to help her and reach out to her, she kept saying, im on my own journey with all of the emotion and all of the frustration that i was working through. Through it inspired me to do something i started my Company Stock pop and ashes. But the goal of for every blanket that we sell will donate a blanket to your local Homeless Shelter these blankets over here. These are all boxed up blankets. Donation blankets that again, can be going out to shelters this week. So far, almost a half 1 million has been designated to Homeless Shelters around the United States the people that come in here, you dont have some of them dont have anything these blanket they helped save lives they really give. There was a time where i just drove by people on the street and whispered under my breath, go get a job. But now theres an actual reality where i see people dignity now and thats what my mom inspired in my life now, when i do blanket jobs every once in a while, my mom comes and joins me shes gone through an entire recovery from coming off the streets, getting sober and now shes helping people in a Detox Facility on their Recovery Journeys i think the most important thing is to see that a homeless person or person in struggle is somebodys mother or uncle, or father or son . Four brother these problems can happen to any of us all of our blankets come in these boxes make a local impact and we want when our packaging to encourage people to take action in their community so they can scan this qr code and find ways to get involved and they can also fill this box up with items and donate to their local shelter. A lot of people want to make a difference, but they dont know where to start. And so we created love your city. Org for people to search your City Find Organizations and have the ability to donate financially and you can also fill out a Volunteer Form and get involved. If we all come together and do a small part were going to make a huge impact addiction is a major reason that many people end up living on the street. There is some good news on that front. The amount of drugs now being consumed as actually gone down. But the drugs themselves have also become stronger and deadlier and easier to get even for the very young as youngest, ten years old. And thats where my champion for change steps up. He guides recovering teenage attics at a very special school that i visited in colorado welcome to 52 at high school, we are largest Recovery High School in the country. We serve students who struggle with Substance Abuse selfharm, eating disorders, and other destructive behaviors. And we teach kids how to live without drugs and alcohol. One day at a time. I am key so todays topic is about getting sober, how i got high i was miserable and actor predictions pretty much every day every morning starts with something known as boat be opened and authentic together to sit and listen to that meeting is one of the most powerful things. I think ive ever done. I remember this period of time where it was like, if i wasnt high, i like was going to kill myself. Theres this quote that said that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety. The opposite of addiction is Human Connection and thats what, that time period really is. Are you breaking new ground with a program like this thats the hope. I think a lot of other Recovery High Schools do a lot of clinical pieces. And thats cool. But im sorry. Another 16yearold that looks like me. That sounds like me. That now has a year, 18 months, two years sober, sharing with me what they did to get sober is better than any doctor or clinical person can ever do to help them. So how much of your own personal Life Experience is part of this role for you. I mean, its everything i started. My journey in active addiction as early as 14 15 years old have five felonies today felonies that i acquired while under the influence of drugs and alcohol and active addiction its hard to reconcile the man thats sitting in front of me with all that yeah. Are you the exception to the rule or are you the rule . Theres a lot of us out here who have recreated our lives in recovery but it is a part of my story and it is very important that i share those very terrible and inhumane things that i did an active addiction. So we can give hope to others that they can recover to know every single kid, i can tell you about their story. I can tell you we would theyve been through when they do make mistakes or things do happen not beating them up about it, lebanon them supporting them, and figure out what do we need to do next to help them get to the next . I started drinking and using when i was 13 or smoking crack and fentanyl and drinking and ended up getting narc hand and was in the hospital. Keith was like a really big support through all of that and would just continuously show me that he loved me and cared about me. And ive been sober since then and now i have 17 months congratulations for that. Thank you. Do you dream about the future . Yeah. A few years ago, i didnt think id be alive. And so it was really weird turning 18 and having plans to go to college and just all of the things that i get to do now at one point, i didnt know of lucy was going to live or die and now i know lucy is going to do whatever she wants to do in this world. Every single one of you these kids gives us all hope today that no matter how hard your life is, things can get better One Day At A Time i dont think i will ever forget lucys face or stop thinking about her future after the break, youre going to meet a Fashion Designer who found inspiration in a row, Native American roots and in the process lifted up her community jailyns virtue is presented by Charles Schwab bone, your tomorrow. Go to cnn. Com slash champions to learn about the pioneers using courage, grit, and creativity to move Society Forward and exciting and Inspiring Ways Trees, dont have hearts but they do have Something Like a heartbeat every night a treaty gets a little bit bigger. And every day when the suns on its leaves, it actually shrinks just a teeny and that motion which has less than a human hair is what we measure with the treatment hi, so im gonna go ahead and put these two tree tags thats pretty wellknown there ill start the tree tag right so this is row 21, tree nine im graham hind, cofounder and ceo of the plant. Im roger hi in grams, younger brother and cto new land trees can cry out for help. So how do we get is they have this tree tag on them . Yeah, so we give them a tree tag and now they can ask for help. The real challenge is, how do we look at the data from millions and millions of trees together we spent a long time figuring out how to collect data for me ocean. As a completely different environment, but its a really similar technical problem. One of my fondest memories is roger in the garage cranking away im nuts and bolts on the way glider. This is the pressure activated relief. And dad with a Foam Surfboard carving away at it, covered in phone dust there are a wave letters in every ocean that the planet bringing data back as we speak our values really come from our parents. Lets ones next. Dads invented airplanes and wheels for lunar rover and snow vehicles. Hes still an inventor at heart and we have a narrative that from him our mom i. Think has always been trying to get us outside. She just loves the outdoors, which really led us to create things which could help the environment so how long do you think these trees are trees are the lungs with the plan our mission is to help keep the worlds Trees Healthy think of us as a connector for the Tree Unit Reverse to a cloud and ai cliches that this transition from being people on a planet its being actually the caretakers of the planet is something that i feel really passionately about my psoriasis was all over then Psoriatic Arthritis who knew they could be connected for me because sensors works on both because syntax helps youll people find clear skin and in Psoriatic Arthritis can mean less joint pain and helped stop further joint damage series allergic reactions, severe Skin Reactions that look like eczema and an increase mr. Is of infections, some fatal have occurred. Tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms had a vaccine or plan to or have ibd symptoms develop or worsen apartments. Com, lets any landlord find qualified renters and sign leases and collect payments from any place even here and wheres here . He slept but they rent pada apartments. Com, the place to list in place as a former prosecutor, cnns chief legal analyst, laura coates has seen lots of great Public Servants but her champion for change ever worked in a courtroom. Instead, he presides over a dentist chair, giving back to the community in a way thats close to lauras heart doing man good he does so much more than clean teeth also, the teachers, he motivates hes like a therapist. Hes so much more than a dentist you have demonstrated philosophy of providing care and respect and dignity to anyone who needs your help. I do what i do because this is what god put me on this earth for im actually the daughter of a contest who really devoted his life to Public Service and ensuring dental care was given to people who are most in need. He would go into the prisons. He really believed in meeting people where are they were you also wanted to go into the prisons. I understand as well the only to provide that service, but you recognize guys in many ways. But why should they be denied the dignity of care . Theres a shortage of diminished in prisons around the country most inmates asieh nine of them, they truly a grateful that they get to get out of pain. If i can be courteous and kind and respectful and do my job and treat you good. Regardless of who you are, where you are, thats my goal this is new foundations home for children. We have kids in the Foster Care System and we have qizan, the juvenile justice stomach. He serves and underserved population. Hes not making a lot of money off these kids. He comes because he feels lead to be here. I got here around 2019 because i had other foster home that was at and that didnt work out as he cleans my teeth, he talks to me about my ambitions. He remembers everything i tell them im not his only client. So des mind blowing to know the backup plan, a seed is somebody unknowingly could just doing my job. Were doing the way that i do it. It will influence them to make good decisions and be more productive citizen. Hes absolutely creating a Brighter Future for these kids after he graduated from howard he practiced with me for about nine years. My hazel, shes a reason that Amr Dennis Today and my goal was to make sure for that don dre knew that in life Everyone Needs to be treated with dignity and respect my fathers work inspired me to be a champion for Social Justice and you know, i am a black woman in America Intergenerational Wealth has often alluded intergeneration but what has not alluded us is the passing down of the knowledge of the Community Service that imparts a sense of morality and justice within us and so to hear that he was inspired by his aunt to feel compelled within himself take it forward. Is the highest form of intergenerational wealth in a that, we are Family Knowing who you are and paying it forward. Our next champion for change also did just that when this Fashion Designer connected with their navajo heritage, she hung up or corporate career. She started her own label and she changed the fabric of modern indigenous Art Everything we do here at the shop is based on working with vintage things that have already been here on the planet so thats a way just for me to really approach sustainability from an indigenous lins i was going to have to wear designer for major corporations. I decided to leave corporate fashion and start my own company back in 2015, i rebranded in 20 hey, 21 to the name for kinship, my indigeneity has been really a big part of how the brand has evolved growing up in indiana in a very rural area, being adopted into a white family, but being native, there was always a void and as i go id older, it became a stronger need for me to really know my identity so ive found my mom and birth family joann, mom. Its just been this continual journey of learning more about all those sides of my family is in their stories. Thats her it came with understandings, not just saying, im part of my community, but actually putting that into motion and taking action, its just wonderful to find ways to be part of a positive change in our community for our young people. A lot of them dont know people within Creative Industries that could help them. So i think that is my job as someone that comes from the outside, that comes back with different gifts is to use that to create purchase. I met amy. Are the mip deal through the navajo cultural honors program. She just wants what this are made of our native fast and that allows me to freedom to step outside the box theres so many makers that havent had space and other places to sell that we open our house to that opportunity for them to get a start. Its a really beautiful compilation of all different tribes coming together in the shop some funds part of my job is to revolutionize the Performance Space for Indigenous Peoples please. Denver, take this, i love the assistance. Its a new way to reinvest in our young people because instead of creating events that make money for the Event Organizer is to create events that distribute to the performers that creatives that are part of that show and then ive been in the Fashion Industry for a long time and to actually be in this place to honor my indigeneity and to practice reciprocity for everything that we take, we find a way to give back so we are a sustainable brand that simply found ways to be of service through everything i do, through my creative world. Up next, youll meet two more champions for change, who are now repurposing materials in amazing ways. One was restoring wetlands by turning old glass in the new shorelines. And another who leads a group of artists, their talent and the media they use is inspiring a movement champions, virtue presented by Charles Schwab bone, your tomorrow. Goh to cnn. 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Glass comes from san so we hatched a plan to recycled glass its back in the sand sand is the second most exploited resource after water the first thing we thought of was called whats the restoration . Because that source sand is needed in our state of louisiana we are losing land at such an incredibly fast rate, about a Football Fields Worth of land every 100 minutes are coaston, louisiana is our livelihood we have pickup programs than we have dropped off programs were folks can bring their glass us. Itll be crushed into a mixture of sand and gravel separated by size to date, we have recycled more than 6 Million Pounds of glass and we will have done about six Coastal Restoration projects five, the avenue is a lot of openwater and we hope in the future that its restored to a healthy wetland. Be partnered with a different scientists and engineers there to test the safety and the feasibility of doing in this and now were really translating that lab research into action. We have a restoration makes out today and well be using it to build these islands and plant grasses and trees we have a ton of partners on the ground to help with Restoration Projects arthur from cse de is one of those partners since theyre really focused on work in the lower nice Cse De Center for Community Engagement in development was created as a tool for rebuilding of a community that was devastated by hurricane katrina. Disaster preparedness is so significant here in new its always been a very susceptible community to hurricanes very foreign glass, half full and csc de, weve come together to say, we were going to address this issue, maybe at a smaller level. But having massive impact a big goal of ours is to be able to run replicate what weve done here for other cities and regions. And so our next Expansion Area is alabama instead of looking at things, glass half empty with the things Glass Half Full to a difference. Can you make in your community once i realized that i can have an impact . Felt like i really found what i was supposed to do finally, we have one more champion for change. Who crafts, beauty from recycled material in her art. But as youre about to see her real talent is bringing out the best and other artists a lot of the people that we work with, our deem nonviable citizens, which just blows my mind we all are amazing creatures. Given then the right circumstances passion works is turning upside down. The expectations and the perceived reality of people with developmental difference it says our Passion Flowers are made from upcycled Newspaper Printing plates i love the passion flower. Yeah every single step of that product is a job. We are paying people minimum wage to manufacture those items. We want to infuse opportunity for our community i had a brother who was institutionalized and as i grew up, i realized that often these spaces were excluded from Community Since that time, ive been obsessed with the idea of creating space for people to be their best selves her good days or her passion works days she talks more, she communicates more. She wants to be part of things more. Ive seen her be able to open her mind different things, and ive seen her art absolutely explode. My outlook on life is came show i feel more competent. Why do and i reflect it outside if i go ball happier at one time, i was told years ago that these people would never make anything anybody would want to buy. We have generated over 3 million in sales. We have sold over 35,000 Passion Flowers every product that goes out into the world helps tell our story and it makes people think differently about materials about people, about regions. Passion works is moving Society Forward this is a movable model because we have taken it and shared it internationally. Were creating the evidence of what is possible so that others can pick it up and run with it setting the example, and lifting humanity up. You dont great changes are underway if you just take the time to stop, look and listen. They are dreamt up and they are driven by everyday people with