{"id":9897,"date":"2011-08-07T00:08:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:08:03","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-08-07T00:08:51","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T00:08:51","slug":"Laura-Ling-Gives-Summit-Keynote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9897","title":{"rendered":"Laura Ling Gives Summit Keynote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Laura Ling gave the keynote address at the eAdobe Youth Voices Summit taking place at Santa Clara University last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was so inspired by the work that Adobe Youth Voices is doing with young people all over the world in giving them a chance to have a voice \u2013 it\u2019s so exciting! The way that Adobe Youth Voices supports young people by teaching them how to use media to communicate \u2013 that\u2019s how we\u2019re influencing change in our world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>An American journalist, Laura Ling was arrested in 2009 while reporting on defectors from North Korea and spent 140 days in captivity.<\/strong> Because of this terrifying experience, she knows firsthand the urgency of building bridges through media. \u201cThe power of media is unprecedented,\u201d she said while commenting on the use of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter during the democratic uprisings in the Middle East. \u201cThat young people have these tools in their grasp, [and] access to cameras, gives them a larger platform where their voices can be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Laura Ling says she is passionate about covering struggles for freedom, not only struggles on the geopolitical stage, but \u201cthe battles we have within ourselves.\u201d While sharing her <strong>experiences interviewing Buddhist monks from Myanmar and young Muslim women fighting for their right to wear headscarves, as well as her experiences interacting with her guards in a North Korean prison<\/strong>, Laura challenged the audience to feel compassion and respect for the people they may view as different from themselves.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe Summit is such a great opportunity for young people from 17 different countries to learn from and share with each other \u2013 to get to know each other,\u201d<\/strong> said Laura. \u201cIn the work that you all have done in Adobe Youth Voices, you are building bridges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cEven the smallest actions can have impact. It can change lives, and it can save lives,\u201d <\/strong>she continued, encouraging Adobe Youth Voices students in their work. \u201cI urge you all to continue to support and be a voice for those who need one.\u201d<br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Ling gave the keynote address at the eAdobe Youth Voices Summit taking place at Santa Clara University last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Laura Ling gave the keynote address at the eAdobe Youth Voices Summit taking place at Santa Clara University last week.","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":158,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}