Building a Bridge for Learning | Jaylen Brown & David Kong | TEDxBeaconStreet
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Published 2020-01-17
At 23, Jaylen Brown is a rising star in the NBA with the Boston Celtics and also an activist and advocate for social justice and education reform. In this conversation, Jaylen is joined by Dr. David Sun Kong, Director of the MIT Media Lab’s Community Biotechnology Initiative, to share his educational journey and how he hopes to make an impact on our education system. Jaylen also discusses his vision for a new learning initiative he is developing in collaboration with David and MIT. Jaylen Brown is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played one year of college basketball for the University of California Golden Bears, being named first-team All-Pac-12 and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year. Declaring for the 2016 NBA draft after that season, he was selected by the Celtics with the third overall pick. As a professional, he has split his time between shooting guard and small forward.
David Sun Kong, Ph.D. is a Synthetic Biologist, community organizer, musician, and photographer based in Lexington, MA. He is the Director of the MIT Media Lab's new Community Biotechnology Initiative. Our mission: empowering communities through biotechnology.
David conducted his graduate studies at MIT’s Media Lab, receiving a Master's degree for developing technology for printing nanostructures with energetic beams and a Ph.D. for demonstrating the first gene synthesis in a microfluidic (“lab-on-a-chip”) system. He was recognized as an emerging leader in synthetic biology as a "LEAP" fellow, served as a guest faculty member at the Marine Biology Lab in Woods Hole, MA, and is co-founder and managing faculty of "How To Grow (Almost) Anything," an international course on synthetic biology. He founded and chaired new Microfluidic and Hardware Tracks for the International Genetically Engineered Machines Competition (iGEM) and is the official iGEM DJ. He was Technical Staff in the Bioengineering Systems & Technologies group at MIT’s Lincoln Laboratory and a founding member of the synthetic biology team. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
All Comments (21)
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Having my son listen to Jaylen interview on learning, he’s looking into major in education
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Currently my favorite player in the NBA, not only because he plays hard but he is very intelligent. A great role model for others
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Jaylen Brown actually is one of the few role models for tomorrow's athletes.
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Jaylen Brown is a great player and thinker.
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most likable nba player
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It's a great pleasure to have him in Boston. I hope he chooses to stay for a long, long time
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Talk your $hit Jaylen 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Great work! 🤎✊🏾 So much love to your Mom, Grandma & Grandfather for shaping you into a powerful young man.
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Jaylen made me a celtics fan. Love his game and his mind.
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I love the idea of giving our youth tools and knowledge to help build them up in order to be fruitful inhabits of this country
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So much potential ahead!!!
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I'm from Taiwan: I like Jaylen brown very much, he plays basketball and his eyes are very attractive, and he is also a vegetarian, he is really good
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Wow! So proud of you young man
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Jaylen Brown is just so amazing
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Not only loving JB games but just everything about this young man
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Very intelligent, a great role model. He is a legend in the making and is going to make a huge impact 😁👏🏾
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This deserves more views.
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He’s so multifaceted it’s cool!
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Love JB
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Jaylen is becoming my favorite player.
