Meet Daniel Maree
When Havas Worldwide senior digital strategist Daniel Maree first heard Trayvon Martin's story: "I wanted to do something about it. I wrote a blog post, then published a YouTube video that night calling for the Million Hoodies march: both a rallying cry for justice as well as an effort to show how stereotypes lead to these types of incidents."
Hacker group Anonymous retweeted Daniel's call to action and the Million Hoodies march went viral. Five thousand attended the first march in New York; there are now 50,000 people around the country organizing Million Hoodies chapters to push for change on issues like gun legislation and youth empowerment.
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Communities and Citizenship, Millennials
Job Jumps & Career Changes: Millennials in the Workforce
Millions of millennials leave college and venture into the workforce each year, but they aren’t sticking to their jobs the way previous generations did. In fact, around 9 in 10 expect to stay in a job for less than three years.
Does that matter? Uh, yes… Millennials will make up half the U.S. workforce by 2020 and three-quarters of the global workforce by 2030. Employers need to figure out--fast--how to position themselves to connect with these workers in a mutually beneficial way.
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Millennials
A Millennial Response to Sheryl Sandberg’s “Lean In”
There has been a deafening response to news of the impending release of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In—some of it supportive, but much of it snide. Granted, it's hard not to take pot shots at a multimillionaire c-suiter doling out advice to "working women." Amid all the debate, we thought the below comment stood out. Posted in response to an article on TechCrunch, it's from Micah Clasper-Torch, an artist, designer, and stylist based out of Brooklyn, New York, who is getting set to launch a wedding registry called CityBird. She writes:
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Gender, Millennials
ADVERTISING 2020: A POINT OF VIEW FROM HAVAS WORLDWIDE NEW YORK
Futurology is a strategist’s opportunity to be both grand and wrong. It’s too easy to extrapolate today’s trends in to the future without considering how those trends could burn out, spark off each other, or even fragment. My solution to answering the question was to talk with the people whose advertising careers will come of age around 2020: the millennials working across planning, analytics, user experience, and social media; and ask them what they saw emerging.
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Brand Leadership, Millennials, This Digital Life