Our Co-Chair Zamaan Qureshi will be speaking on the impact of social media on young people Haas School of Business 🙌 This is an-person event on April 7th, 7:00 pm PDT. You can also watch the livestream on The Berkeley Forum's YouTube channel! eventbrite.com/e/breaking-the…

"I am living proof it's never too late" - Gym Tan at The Berkeley Forum

"Don't let anyone make you think that you have to have all these qualifications before you can get started" - Gym Tan on entering the fashion industry at The Berkeley Forum

"You just have to find what's special and make that stand out, and do it every day. Be consistent" - Mya Miller at The Berkeley Forum

"The company was thinking about young people, us, in the context of a dollar amount, and not as a human being"- Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum.

"All that social media is geared to today is keeping us on the apps for as long as possible" - Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"In no means am I speaking to you as someone who thinks that we should ban social media, but we should all acknowledge that the profit incentives aren't working anymore"- Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"Overwhelmingly, people told us they wanted more autonomy back on their social media" - Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"I think congress, even now and on both sides of the aisle, has gotten much better at understanding and making policy reforms"- Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"Social media should be reformed. We should put the onus on the companies" - Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"The wave of activism that's going on right now within the democratic party that focuses on oligarchy presents a really interesting opportunity to look back on the tech industry" - Zamaan Qureshi at the Berkeley Forum

"The power of young people to actually have a voice and deliver, not only on policy but talking about this as a problem, has grown hugely over time" - Zamaan Qureshi on the big tech lobby at The Berkeley Forum

"Our attention spans have become so fraught that this kind of content proliferates in a way that we are craving our next fix" - Zamaan Qureshi on 'brain rot' at The Berkeley Forum

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“It will be such a disservice to the country if NPR is defunded. NPR will still be here, but the communities that depend on public media will be hugely affected” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum

“The advent of the internet, and the deepening of the internet, which democratized information in a way never seen before, has allowed me to evolve my journalism with time” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum

“We all have our lots in life, and I think that me being a black woman has only enhanced my life and my journalism... I’ve experienced a lot in my career over the years and that has allowed me to reflect that back to the world.” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum

“Today you can find out anything about anyone, so what is it you want to hear from us? The internet guides me in knowing what kind of conversation I want to have, while seeing the saturation of information out there” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum

“Politics is everything right now. Everyone is taking on politics. That puts journalism in a precarious position” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum

“If you care about democracy, then you should care about public media, and community media, and you should invest in it” - Tonya Mosley at The Berkeley Forum