Rethinking Social Emotional Trauma | Rodney Walker | TEDxICC

The affects of violence goes far beyond the family and extends into the classroom and other areas of society in ways many cannot understand.

Rodney Walker, a Chicago native, has a Bachelors degree from Morehouse College and a Masters degree from Yale University. Given the obstacles placed before him as a foster child, Rodney struggled academically and socially in school. He has been a speaker at TEDxYale. served as a keynote speaker in Monaco, France for Ernst and Young, and has delivered a Keynote at the White House on the importance of financial literacy for urban youth. Portions of his story have appeared on PBS’s American Graduate Day, in the national education documentary Ten9Eight: Shoot for the Moon, and in It’s Your World: Get Informed, Get Inspired and Get Going by Chelsea Clinton. Rodney is the Author of an educational memoir titled "A New Day One: Trauma, Grace, and a Young Man's Journey from Foster Care to Yale".

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If someone spoke to me like this when I was young it would’ve saved me 10-15 years of struggle

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Rethinking Social Emotional Trauma | Rodney Walker | TEDxICC