"Travel to Creativity" - a Tedx talk by Elsie Andre

Elsie Andre was just an 8th grader at Lafayette Middle School last spring when became the youngest speaker ever to have taken the stage at TEDx at the University of Mississippi!!  Her talk was about the idea of traveling and meeting others in order to broaden one’s horizons. It was inspired by Elsie’s own experiences when she lived in Africa with her family. Her talk focuses on how traveling allows people the opportunity to meet, understand and empathize with others from different cultural backgrounds, which can often lead to “inspiration and creative breakthroughs.”

This Sunday we’ll have Elsie as our special guest at UUCO and her TED talk the centerpiece of our service!  Elsie’s family has been part of UUCO’s circle of members and friends for many years; her mother is UM faculty member Laura Johnson, her father the ceramic artist Yerger Andre, and her grandmother, Cindy Johnson, joined UUCO after her recent move to Oxford from Jackson.