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How to build your confidence -- and spark it in others

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham |

TED2019

• April 2019

"Confidence is the necessary spark before everything that follows," says educator and activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham. In an inspiring talk, she shares three ways to crack the code of confidence -- and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious dreams into reality.

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"Confidence is the necessary spark before everything that follows," says educator and activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham. In an inspiring talk, she shares three ways to crack the code of confidence -- and her dream for a world where revolutionary confidence helps turn our most ambitious dreams into reality.

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Donate to Black Girls Rock! Founded in 2006 by DJ Beverly Bond, Black Girls Rock is an organization built to empower and mentor girls of color through exposure to the arts and leadership training. Their flagship leadership program, Black Girls Lead, is a multi-week camp for girls from around the globe to build the skill of confidence and gain access to halls of power.

Donate to IFAW. Their tenBoma program supports female engagement teams and the work of Team Lionness, investing in and unleashing the power of women to strengthen conservation and communities alike.

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Brittany Packnett Cunningham

Activist, educator, writer

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An activist, educator and writer, Brittany Packnett Cunningham uses every platform she has to teach truth that provokes people to action -- for the sake of freedom and justice.

This talk was presented at an official TED conference.

Read our curation guidelines.

Donate to Black Girls Rock! Founded in 2006 by DJ Beverly Bond, Black Girls Rock is an organization built to empower and mentor girls of color through exposure to the arts and leadership training. Their flagship leadership program, Black Girls Lead, is a multi-week camp for girls from around the globe to build the skill of confidence and gain access to halls of power.

Donate to IFAW. Their tenBoma program supports female engagement teams and the work of Team Lionness, investing in and unleashing the power of women to strengthen conservation and communities alike.