Why Universities Should Invest in Education: Sara Serrades Duarte at TEDxOxbridge

Sara is a PhD student in neuroscience with a very strong commitment and motivation to increase access to education. The combination of her childhood in Mozambique, her previous experience as a teacher and the opportunity of being a student at University of Cambridge made her realise the central role universities can have in addressing the world's development needs. As a result of studying the potential of universities in the generation of social innovation, she co-founded SecondGO, a social start up that extends the educational opportunities of university students to others, and became the president of Beyond Profit, the social entrepreneurship society at Cambridge.

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