Theme: Economic

Perspective: Performance artist

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Name: Carvens Lissaint

Bio: Carvens Lissaint is a slam poet, performance artist, and member of the Hip Hopera Theater troupe.

At TEDYouth 2011, Performance artist Carvens Lissaint shows how to use language, metaphor and imagery to express a powerful idea -- as in this spoken word performance, a stirring plea to make college education more accessible.