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On doing big and feeling small: Oz Fishman at TEDxFoggyBottom

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Oz explains how his view of happiness and humanitarianism has been impacted through his work with kids at a summer camp and his fraternity's philanthropy at The George Washington University.

Oz Fishman is usually not the kind of guy to write about himself in the third person. Born in Tel Aviv and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, he currently studies at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Besides snacking on Bugles and making people pleasantly uncomfortable, Oz really loves rallying people to move on important causes with powerful narratives and images; most recently founding a student disaster relief organization, GW Responds, and raising $80,000 for Cancer research through his fraternity's philanthropy event. Right now, he spends his time between interning with Teach for America, taking lead on student-run concerts at GW, building a social entrepreneurship network for high school students, and pretending to read books he doesn't quite understand. Baruch HaShem.

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