Malala Yousafzai

And very good chance it was the genesis of all of this.

Doing a funny speech to introduce Malala?

I'm like

Malala.

Malala needs this visit to Cork like a bloody hole in the

head.

You sounded like Ringo Starr at the end there.

No reporters, no photographers, so no uncomfortable questions of the president and no images the White House can't control.

Recent examples, the president's lunch with Hillary Clinton, his Oval Office visit with Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani human rights activist who told the president to stop using drones in her country.

and a meeting with Palestinian and Israeli negotiators.

Doug Mills is a New York Times photographer.

In the past two years, Lena has sold two shows, has received an Emmy nomination for her work in television directing, working on shows ranging from the and The Mysterious Benedict Society.

Lena is also producing a show for Disney+, and recently executive produced the Academy Award-nominated documentary short Stranger at the Gate alongside Malala.

Her most recent film that we're going to talk about today is a glitzy dance film for Netflix from Hasan Minhaj, and it follows two best friends who go to UCLA and join the cutthroat world of Bollywood dance competition.

Yes.

the excuse for me to knit away whereas sometimes i'll get a gift from someone else who's gone i've made you this because i can see that you need this and it's so much more powerful and all of our gifts for power holders with craftivism is as bespoke as possible where we think about what colors would that decision maker like most what quotes from what people they admire would encourage them it's absolutely nothing to do with you as a craftivist apart from you're doing the activity it's not about what medium you love it's not about whether you love crochet or neon colors or a particular knitting pattern you want to do like this is bigger than you this is serving the cause and for some craft lovers that's a challenge and at the beginning they go oh i thought this would be fun but by the end of it they're much more fulfilled because they can see that they're doing something that could have impact and that is loving and that is connected to a human and that is bigger than themselves.

But often you have to go through that process where I am a little bit of a scouse nudger and I take the piss a little bit when some people go and... you know slow down i had malala come to one of my workshops and she's a brilliant stitcher and i had to say she came with her best mate in birmingham when she was quite young and i said um slow down this is about being the tortoise and using the slowness for mindfulness and critical thinking and we had a little giggle about it because this girl had just won the nobel peace prize and her you know she had a security guard behind her reminding her every day that she wasn't safe So, you know, we had a giggle about like that and everyone else in the workshop who was trying to just be normal because we were trying to treat everyone equally was like, this is hilarious that you're telling Malala to slow down when she can do whatever she bloody well wants.

But I knew that actually it would help her because she was grappling with lots of stuff to be like, this isn't just about doing as much as you can as quickly as you can and being the best at it.

This is just for you.

Slow down, calm yourself down, regulate your breath, do it repetitively and slowly and stroke your thread in this particular way so you're embodied and you're not stuck in your head and not asking you to win another Nobel Peace Prize.

I'm asking you to think about how can you be the best version of you? And her best mate loved it as well.

I told Malala to slow down.

It was great.

Like Nelson Mandela said, education is the most powerful weapon that we can use to fix the world.

And as Malala once said, with guns, you can kill terrorists, but with education, you can kill terrorism.

So I think it's important.

Will degrees matter more in the future or less? I think less.

And the youngest ever winner of the Nobel Peace Prize was also 17.

Who was that? Malala Yousafzai.

Oh, the

amazing student.