Naomi Natale

Naomi Natale is a social activist who uses art to bring about and inspire social change. She accomplishes this by creating large-scale art installations that engage hundreds and thousands of artists, activists and children to act on behalf of a social cause. Through her experiences, Natale has come to realize that the tangible—giving people something they can physicially do, or create, to help raise awareness—is crucial.

In this engaging, visually stunning and emotionally moving talk, Natale shares her story: she talks about what brought her to humanitarian through work, what she wants to achieve through her art, and urges her audience to find their own artistic way to participate in social justice. Natale discusses her work with One Million Bones, and how the experience of making a bone connects people in a very real, personal way to the difficult and complex issue of genocide. The action of creating a bone is the first step that brings a new activist to the cause and inspires hope. Natale believes that by inspiring action through art, you can change the world one person at a time. She leaves her audiences with the tools, the ideas, and plenty of the motivation to do just that.