Barbara Boron is 17, a Polish pre-IB student and lives in Berlin since 2018 where she is currently finishing her 10th grade at Berlin Cosmopolitan School.

In August 2022 she will move to Israel to study at the Eastern Mediterranean International School (EMIS) for her International Baccalaureate (A-Level, Abitur…) diploma.

This impressive young women is a UNICEF JniorTeamer with a finished UNICEFyouth training program, engaged in ModelUN, a TEDx youth speaker, a class representative, a basketball captain and only 17 years old!

We spoke about

• 01:20 What is an IB?
• 02:25 How did you get involved with GGU?
• 03:04 Why are you interested in women's rights?
• 04:51 Should kids have the same rights as adults?
• 06:06 How far does ones freedom go?
• 07:44 Where are your roots? Where is home?
• 08:58 How did GGU change you?
• 11:42 Why did that one GGU week change you completely?
• 12:54 What makes GGU so magical?
• 14:32 What skills did you learn?
• 16:32 How do you define leadership?
• 18:01 What should the future of the work place look like?
• 20:30 What opportunities and challenges do you see in the future?
• 22:51 What can we learn from Generation Z?
• 24:47 What have you planned for your immediate future?
• 26:48 What are you hoping to learn through that experience?
• 27:32 What are your ambitions for the future?
• 28:48 What advice would you give younger kids?
• 31:29 How a lucky guess got her into UNICEF
• 33:13 MY LAST QUESTION - Why is GGU so special?

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