TEDxAshokaU - Scott Sherman - 2/19/10

Scott Sherman has worked on nonviolence and social justice projects from the war-torn island of Sri Lanka to the inner city ghettos of America. He is an expert on the most effective ways that citizens succeed in creating social progress and innovation.
Sherman's work on nonviolent social change projects has been praised by such Nobel Peace Prize Laureates as the Dalai Lama and the late Mother Teresa. He is also a nationally recognized speaker on environmental regeneration and transformative action. He has won the outstanding teaching award from the University of California at Berkeley. In 2004, he was nominated for the National Society of Collegiate Scholars' Faculty of the Year award for the entire US.
Sherman earned his undergraduate and law degrees from UC Berkeley, and his PhD in environmental studies from the University of Michigan.

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