Radical Imagination Children’s Literature Changes the World | Sayantani DasGupta | TEDxRutgersPrep

Stories matter and how they are told matter even more. Therefore, a story told from the perspective of an immigrant child can change the world for that child, for the next generation of children and ultimately, the world. Originally trained in pediatrics and public health, Dr. Sayantani DasGupta teaches at the Graduate Program in Narrative Medicine, the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, all at Columbia University. She is also the author of the Bengali folktale and string theory middle grade fantasy series Kiranmala and the Kingdom Beyond from Scholastic (The Serpent's Secret, 2018; Game of Stars, 2019; The Chaos Curse, 2020). She is a member of We Need Diverse Books. More about her academic, and creative work can be found on her website. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx