Shift Happens | Syd Stewart | TEDxBeverly Grove

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Syd Stewart, founder and CEO of Better Youth, opened her TEDxBeverlyGrove 2026 talk not with a statistic but with a question: what happens when potential meets possibility in a young person the system underestimated? What followed was not a policy argument. It was a spoken word declaration built from nearly two decades spent in the room with foster and system impacted youth. Drawing on the young people she has mentored into storytellers, filmmakers, and leaders of their own destinies, Stewart closes with the line that gives the talk its title: shift happens. Syd Stewart is the Founder and CEO of Better Youth, Inc., a Los Angeles–based nonprofit equipping foster and at-promise youth with creative confidence and career-connected skills through mentoring and media arts training. A writer, filmmaker, and published poet, she has written for Johnson (Hulu) and G.R.I.T.S. (ALLBLK/AMC), is a Sundance Collab Directing Elements alum, and has been featured in The New York Times, Variety, and The

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