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<IMG STYLE="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" ALT="" SRC="https://cdn.evbuc.com/eventlogos/131610466/upstarttanyellaevans.png" HEIGHT="417" WIDTH="576">
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Come to Echoing Green's UpStart, hosted in partnership with Be Social Change on Thursday, May 25th at 7:00 p.m. Join a moderated conversation with Echoing Green Fellow Tanyella Evans on the role of technology as a tool for inclusive & quality education, the future of philanthropy & more.
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Knowledge is a human right.But while the global illiteracy rate has fallen over the past decade, millions around the world-including 250 million children-remain unable to read & write. Part of the solution is to make it easier to get books into classrooms.
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Today, 95 percent of the world's population is covered by cellular networks, & access to mobile devices is increasing. Library for All, co-founded by Echoing Green Fellow Tanyella Evans, developed a low-cost digital library platform to bring ebooks & cloud-based libraries to communities in Haiti, DRC, Rwanda, Cambodia, & Mongolia - making Library For All well on its way to ensuring everyone has access to knowledge.
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Don't miss Echoing Green's UpStart, hosted in partnership with Be Social Change on Thursday, May 25 at 7:00 p.m. Join a moderated conversation with Tanyella on the role of technology as a tool for inclusive & quality education, the future of philanthropy & more.
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Come for the bold ideas & stay for networking & refreshments with the socially-inclined & curious.
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 18px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Lato, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif;">Tanyella Evans is the Co-Founder & CEO at Library For All, a tech nonprofit that has built a cloud-based digital library & platform to make knowledge accessible to communities in the developing world. Tanyella has experience in social entrepreneurship & international development, through the lens of education & culture. Prior to Library For All, Tanyella lived & worked as a teacher in Uganda, & trained at the Campaign for Female Education in the UK. As Executive Director of Artists for Peace & Justice, Tanyella led a team to establish a school that is now serving over 2,000 students on the edge of one of the poorest slums in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It was the search for a scalable solution to the lack of access to educational materials that led Tanyella to meet her co-founder Rebecca, & launch Library For All in 2012. Tanyella is a recipient of a United World College scholarship to Lester B. Pearson College, & graduated with a degree in Social & Political Sciences from the University of Cambridge in the UK.
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