Sunday’s Spotlight session will feature a panel discussion with Sixto Cancel and students from Henry County’s Warrior Tech Academy discussing themes around technology, school, learning and the future.
Sixto Cancel’s lived experience in the foster care system fuels his passion for youth development, youth’s well-being and capacity building of systems and people impacting youth. He has been recognized as a White House Champion of Change. As a commitment maker for the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGIU) Sixto founded Think of Us, a non-profit dedicated to innovating with data, technology and multi-media to serve vulnerable population. His dedication to helping young people succeed in life started in high school with Stellar Works, his initiative to fund and provide SAT and remedial education program for students in foster care. Sixto currently leads a working committee that focuses on the learning of vulnerable youth populations as member of the Dell Youth Innovation Advisor. He has also served as a Youth Thrive Expert Panel at the Center for the Study of Social Policy and as advisory member to the American Institutes for Research LGBTQQA Advisory Board. As a Young Fellow with Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative, Sixto has advocated for youth aging out of foster care. Sixto has participated in several White House briefings around technology, foster care and LGBTQ issues. Sixto has appeared on NPR’s “Tell Me More,” Fox News, the Katie Couric show, and the Huffington Post. Cancel has been named a Millennial Maker by BET and recognized as one of the Top 24 Changemakers under 24 in the country by the Campaign for a Presidential Youth Council and Sparkaction. Today Sixto is a scholar at Youth Villages.
