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Why is Kids Help Phone leading and sharing insights on innovation, data and even artificial intelligence? Isn’t Kids Help Phone (KHP) a not-for-profit charity, a youth mental health social service charity? These are questions I get all the time — until I tell the story of KHP and the work we have been doing for 35 years.
If you don’t recognize his name, you’ll probably recognize some of the movies Chris Williams played a key role in creating. From voicing Oaken in Frozen to writing for Mulan to directing Big Hero 6, Chris has acquired a long list of film credits since studying Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo. Most recently, he wrote, directed and produced The Sea Beast for Netflix, which was nominated for Best Animated Feature at this year’s Oscars.
As the daughter of a single teen mom, and a former young single mother herself, Dr.