Barclays is hosting a panel discussion titled "Diverse Young Leaders: A Dialogue" featuring five young leaders from different backgrounds. The panelists will discuss topics like achieving social change, building relationships across cultures and generations, and finding their passion. The event will take place on April 19th in New York City. It will include a panel discussion moderated by Michelle Henry, followed by a networking reception to learn about volunteer opportunities. The panelists come from diverse backgrounds and work on issues like North Korean human rights, food waste and hunger relief, generational poverty, tuition for undocumented immigrants, and assisting child refugees.

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Registration
Emerge and Embrace
April 19, 2016
Subject: Barclays Panel Discussion on April 19 – Diverse Young Leaders: A Dialogue
You’re Invited
Diverse Young Leaders: A Dialogue
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
745 7th Avenue, ASK Auditorium
5:45PM - 8:00PM
From North Korea to Harlem, from Peru to Queens, Barclays welcomes five diverse young
leaders to a special panel discussion jointly hosted by the Emerge - Early Careers
Professionals and the Embrace - Hispanic, Asian, and Black Professionals networks.
Engage real-time with the panelists via mobile app as they discuss chartering paths to achieve
social change, building cross-cultural and multi-generational relationships, and finding their
passion and voice.
The first 100 attendees will be entered in a giveaway for 25 copies of panelist Yeonmi Park's
book In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom as well as three tote bags
crafted by a Kenyan social enterprise.
Please register your attendance here.
Agenda
5:45PM - 6:00PM Registration
6:00PM - 6:05PM Introductory Remarks by Embrace
6:05PM - 7:00PM Panel Discussion Moderated by Michelle Henry, Community Investment
7:00PM - 7:05PM Closing Remarks by Emerge
7:05PM - 8:00PM Networking and Volunteer Opportunities Reception - meet your fellow
colleagues as well as Barclays Citizenship ambassadors to learn how you
can get involved
Panelists
North Korean
Human Rights
Human
Trafficking
Yeonmi Park was born in Hyesan, North Korea in
1993 and fled in 2009. Yeonmi’s activism has been
featured in the New York Times, the Washington
Post, and The Guardian, and her One Young World
speech has been viewed over 3 million times. She
published her memoir in 2015 and currently studies
at Columbia.
Food Waste
Hunger
Robert Lee grew up in Woodside, Queens and
graduated from NYU in 2013. His nonprofit
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine (RLC) rescues and
donates leftover food to homeless shelters. RLC
operates in 12 cities, with over 2,300 volunteers
and 400,000 pounds of food rescued. Prior to RLC,
Robert was at JP Morgan.

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Generational
Poverty
Kwame Owusu-Kesse is Chief Operating Officer of
Harlem Children's Zone, a nonprofit committed to
ending generational poverty in Central Harlem
through education, health, and community-building
programs. Before coming to HCZ in 2008, he was
an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley.
Kwame received his MBA/MPP from Harvard.
Affordable Tuition
Undocumented
Immigrants
Rights
Giancarlo Tello came to the US from Peru at age
six. As part of NJ United Students’ Tuition Equity for
DREAMers, he spearheaded efforts to pass a NJ
law that allowed undocumented students to pay in-
state tuition, signed by Governor Christie in 2014.
Giancarlo currently studies Political Science at
Rutgers.
Public Interest
Law
Child Refugees
Carlos Valenzuela was born in Brooklyn, New York
in 1992 to Guatemalan parents. As a Pro Bono
Scholar with the Safe Passage Project, he has
worked to stop deportations of minors and help
child refugees obtain permanent status. Carlos was
recently honored as "Law Student of the Year" by the
National Jurist.
About Emerge: The Emerge Multigenerational Network is dedicated to supporting colleagues early in
their careers or new to financial services. Emerge’s goals for members are to build rewarding cross-
generational relationships and accelerate their careers through networking opportunities and
workplace skills development.
About Embrace: Embrace is Barclays’ Multicultural Employee Network. Embrace’s mission is to raise
cultural awareness and maximize the potential of our increasingly diverse workforce, supporting the
firm in becoming the “premier global bank.”
For further information, please contact Emerge Americas.