Alessandra Orofino: It’s our city. Let’s fix it
آلساندرو اوروفینو: اینجا شهر ماست. بیایید درستش کنیم
Alessandra Orofino founded Meu Rio, Rio de Janeiro’s largest mobilization network. Full bio
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not doing a very good one.
وظیفه مان را خوب انجام نمیدهیم.
that we have right now.
only exercise in citizenship
collective decision making,
pajamas or my blue pajamas.
members are young people
security got 16,000 emails
low-income communities in Rio,
governments around the world
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Alessandra Orofino - Political mobilization activistAlessandra Orofino founded Meu Rio, Rio de Janeiro’s largest mobilization network.
Why you should listen
After working as a field researcher in Brazil and India, interviewing young girls who had been victims of domestic violence, Alessandra Orofino founded Meu Rio in 2011. The organization has fueled bottom-up local politics using a combination of on-the-ground actions and custom-designed online and mobile platforms and apps.
Orofino, who's 25 years old with a degree in economics and human rights from Columbia, is a believer in participatory politics and in cities as the ideal locus for reinventing representative democracy, and with her team she has designed Meu Rio as a catalyst for youth activism. Among its 140,000 members are tens of thousands of millennials, identifying common issues, pooling ideas for solutions, and pressuring decision-makers to adopt new policies and practices.
Alessandra Orofino | Speaker | TED.com