Rethinking failure: Joya Dass at TEDxBarnardCollege

In her TEDxBarnardCollege talk, Joya Dass shares her raw, personal relationship with failure and her experiences with coping with a tradition that does not deal head-on with it, and what that has meant for her own path to success.

Joya Dass was one of the first South Asian females to be seen on mainstream television in the US. She's been a business anchor for major networks for the last 15 years, including CNN, ABC, Bloomberg, NY1 News and CBS. She has also been host of a popular Saturday morning entertainment show AVS since December 2002.

Her production company is currently engaged by the Rockefeller Foundation to produce a series of mini-documentaries about their philanthropic work in their Centennial year. Her first social justice documentary, about curable blindness in children in India, is on the screening circuit (http://www.firstsightthefilm.com)

Joya is using her 15 years in television to support her newest initiative called "LadyDrinks," (http://www.lady-drinks.com) elevating women who have their own businesses.

Joya serves on the boards of the MINDS Foundation and ARC Athletics. She a frequent speaker, emcee and moderator.

The Athena Center for Leadership Studies at Barnard College was proud to host a diverse and talented line up of speakers who shared their stories of resilience and failure. http://www.TEDxBarnardCollege.com

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