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“The significance of names--and why I changed mine” — Jai Djwa at TEDxCapilano U Live

IDEA School of Design’s Jai Djwa spoke about the transformative power of changing his name at TEDxCapilano U Live on April 30, 2024. Check out this story and listen to his talk.

About Jai Djwa

Jai Djwa is an artist, creative technologist, and a dedicated instructor at the IDEA School of Design at Capilano University. His career is deeply rooted in creativity, collaboration, and community engagement, through which he has contributed to projects. These include producing digital arts infrastructure for the 2010 Olympics, building the online Doomsday Clock, sharing historic castle battles on TV, helping Indigenous schools in BC get technology, highlighting the richness of Indigenous languages at the Royal BC Museum, and writing a play about changing his name.