Changing what holds you back into something you can thrive from | Huda Ahmed | TEDxYouth@SanDiego

While growing up being black, female, and Muslim often resulted in judgement, discrimination, and even exclusion, Huda has found strength, unity, and empowerment within these three traits and uses them to turn 'three strikes' into a 'triple threat', overcoming preconceived ideas based on how she is dressed, her ethnicity, or her gender.

For Huda, being an African American female Muslim highlights the fact that we all have 'strikes' against us based on our color, race, sexuality, religion, or even finances. But we can change what holds us back, and morph it into something that we can thrive from, making us stronger and more powerful individuals. Huda is a student at Crawford High School. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at

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