Asha Christensen – TEDxKids @SMU 2012
Asha’s name means hope and she is full of it. Her first TED experience was from the center front row of the first ever TEDxKids @SMU when she was nine. She heckled Rives and made a friend – he was the first spoken word poet she’d ever met. When her school announced a slam poetry [...]
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Masha Sardari – TEDxKids @SMU 2012
Masha was born in the small Republic of Moldova, located in Eastern Europe. At the age of twelve, she moved to the United States where she continued her education. At the age of sixteen, she discovered her passion for art and photography. This mode of expression has been with her ever since and it has [...]
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Amit Banerjee – TEDxKids @SMU 2012
I am a 14 year old high school freshman who this April, earned the rank of Eagle, the highest rank in Boy Scouts. I have been in Scouting since first grade. The Scout slogan “Do a Good Turn Daily” really resonated with me and inspired me to follow it in my everyday life. For my [...]
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Terry Stewart – TEDxSMU 2012
Terry has been the president & CEO since 1999 of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, a nonprofit organization. Terry earned two undergraduate degrees, a B.S. in engineering and a B.A. in education from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He then received his MBA in finance and J.D. in law from Cornell [...]
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David Gallo – TEDxSMU 2012
David Gallo is an American oceanographer and Director of Special Projects at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – a preeminent, globally recognized scientific laboratory. For more than 25 years, Dr. Gallo has been at the forefront of ocean exploration, participating in and being witness to the development of new technologies and scientific discoveries that shape [...]
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Tracy Walder – TEDxKids @SMU 2012
Tracy Walder earned her degree in history from USC and her Master’s in education from Chapman University. From 2000-2004, Tracy worked as Staff Operations Officer (SOO) at the Central Intelligence Agency’s Counterterrorism Center. During her time at the CIA, Tracy travelled to Afghanistan, Jordan, Uzbekistan, Algeria, Morocco, Denmark, Sweden, Italy, and England. After the CIA, [...]
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Jeremy Gregg – TEDxSMU 2012
Jeremy Gregg is the chief development officer for the Prison Entrepreneurship Program, a pioneering nonprofit that delivers the nation’s best results in terms of recidivism, employment and small business creation among ex-offenders. Before joining the staff, Jeremy served as a volunteer member of PEP’s Dallas Advisory Board from 2007 until 2012. Prior to PEP, Jeremy [...]
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Lewis Warren – TEDxSMU 2012
Lewis, 15, is an award-winning pianist and an accomplished composer, arranger, and improviser. His special ability to connect with people through music was evident at an early age. He started composing many of his own songs when he was five years old, and he has been a frequent top prizewinner in local, state and international [...]
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Jeremi Suri – TEDxSMU 2012
Jeremi is the Mack Brown Distinguished Professor for Global Leadership, History, and Public Policy at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of five books on contemporary politics and foreign policy. In September 2011 he published a new book on the past and future of nation building: Liberty’s Surest Guardian: American Nation-Building [...]
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Kyle Stewart – TEDxSMU 2012
An endlessly curious person who grew up in a small Iowa town, Kyle received degrees in music from Iowa State University, Northwestern University and Tanglewood. After stints teaching music, arts and humanities at Alverno College, technical writing, and managing International Sales and Marketing for BancTec, Kyle bought a coffee shop. He added tea to the [...]
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Brett Giroir – TEDxSMU 2012
Dr. Brett Giroir is Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives for the Texas A&M University System and Principal Investigator for the Texas A&M Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing, a public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services designed to enhance the nation’s emergency preparedness against emerging infectious diseases, including pandemic influenza, [...]
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Helen Fisher – TEDxSMU 2012
Helen Fisher, PhD, Biological Anthropologist Rutgers University, distinguishes four broad styles of thinking and behaving, based on the brain systems for dopamine, serotonin, testosterone and estrogen/oxytocin. These data are derived from her Fisher Chemistry Test, taken by over 12 million people in 40 countries via the Internet dating sites Match.com and Chemistry.com, as well as from [...]
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Willie Baronet – TEDxSMU 2012
Willie is an artist, professor and life/business coach living in Dallas. For 15 years he owned and managed an advertising design firm, which he sold in 2006. In 2011, he graduated with an MFA in Arts & Technology from UTD, and currently teaches in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at SMU. Willie has been buying and [...]
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Byron Sanders – TEDxSMU 2012
Byron is the executive director of the Dallas Education Foundation, a nonprofit charitable and educational organization that benefits Dallas Independent School District. Founded in 2006, the Foundation has been a channel for the philanthropic,foundation and corporate communities to support initiatives and programs benefiting the students of the second largest public school district in Texas. Previously, Byron served [...]
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Klaudia Oliver – TEDxSMU 2012
Klaudia Oliver is a force of nature. Whether organizing world-class events; roaming the globe as a self-styled ambassador of Mexican culture; working as a publisher, producer or cultural alchemist; or serving as an artists’ muse, Klaudia is a whirlwind personality passionate about bridging cultures and building creative communities. Born in Monterrey, Mexico and raised in [...]
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Christian Genco – TEDxSMU 2012
Christian is an SMU President’s Scholar majoring in Computer Science with a premedical specialization. He has an affinity for tech startups, a knack for Web development, and a fascination with the rapid progress of technology and its implications on the future of human society. Christian is on a mission to inspire the world to learn [...]
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Molly Bingham – TEDxSMU 2012
Molly Bingham is the founder and executive director of ORBmedia, a data-fueled journalism organization that delivers a single daily multimedia story to a diverse audience on topics that touch each of us individually but challenge us collectively. ORBmedia’s allegiance is to humanity as a whole, rather than any national, religious, cultural or ideological community. Based [...]
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Greg Harper – TEDxSMU 2012
Greg Harper is CEO of Harpervision Associates, a firm dedicated to the development and implementation of cutting edge technology for businesses purposes and co founder of Gadgetoff. He is a long time strategic technology advisor to private equity firms and leading Wall Street investment banks as well as major public corporations. As the designer of [...]
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Jessie Zarazaga – TEDxSMU 2012
Jessie Marshall Zarazaga is a landscape-urbanist and architect. Trained internationally, she now lives and practices in Dallas, working across the boundaries of urbanism, landscape, sustainability and public art engagement, she explores ways to connect culture and community to Place. She teaches part-time at SMU & UNT and undertakes research and writing work, as well as [...]
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Courtney Ferrell – TEDxSMU 2012
An experienced and passionate innovation catalyst, Courtney is a sought-after international speaker and creativity consultant. For the past 15 years she and her teammates have worked hard to inspire corporations and the people who run them to embrace change and fuel passion to generate new ideas. Courtney designs and leads high-energy, interactive, story based programs [...]
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Will Power – TEDxSMU 2012
Will Power is an award-winning playwright and performer. Power’s adaptation of the Greek tragedy Seven Against Thebes, retitled “The Seven,” enjoyed a successful Off-Broadway run at the New York Theater Workshop and the La Jolla Playhouse. His solo show FLOW was featured in the Hip Hop Theater Festival before touring nationally and internationally to critical [...]
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Charley Johnson – Simplicity in a Complex World – TEDxSMU 2012
A former corporate executive in manufacturing, Charley has been a longtime supporter of the Pay it Forward mission. In fact, Charley is so passionate about Pay it Forward that he left his company and career behind in 2011 to help advance its mission and bring back simplicity in a complex world. As the president of [...]
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Katrina Leshan – Graphic Notation: Bringing Art to the Musician – TEDxSMU 2012
Originally from Las Vegas, Katrina is in her fourth year at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU, pursuing a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Guitar Performance and participating in the University’s Honors Program. She studies with world-renowned guitarist Robert Guthrie and gives recitals at SMU each semester. In April 2011, Katrina and [...]
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Lesli Rotenberg – re:Think Children’s Media – TEDxSMU 2012
As Senior Vice President of Children¹s Media at PBS, Lesli Rotenberg is responsible for the strategic direction of a contemporary, dynamic children’s media service that meets the needs of a new generation of children, their parents and teachers. Lesli leads a cross disciplinary team charged with content production, internet and mobile development, multi-platform asset distribution, [...]
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Louie Schwartzberg – Nature’s Beauty Inspires Gratitude – TEDxSMU 2012
Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director and producer who captures breathtaking images and stories that celebrate life — revealing connections, universal rhythms, patterns and beauty. His notable career spans feature films, television shows, commercials and documentaries. He won two Clio Awards for TV advertising, including best environmental broadcast spot, an EMMY® nomination for best [...]
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Luke Barrington – Crowdsource the World – TEDxSMU 2012
Luke invents the hybrid between machine intelligence and human computation. The crowdsourcing technologies Luke builds engage tens of thousands of people to work together to understand music; discover lost mysteries and maybe even save the world. Found the tomb of Genghis Khan with the help of 10,000 people online. // Can hack code while carrying [...]
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Amy Krouse Rosenthal – Beckon Lovely and Save the World – TEDxSMU 2012
Amy is a person who likes to make things. Some things she likes to make: Children’s books. // Grown-up books. // Short videos. // Salads. // Connections with the universe. // Something out of nothing. // Wishes.According to The New York Times, Amy’s children’s books “radiate fun the way tulips radiate spring: they are elegant [...]
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Jaquai Wade – Now – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Jaquai is a Detroit native and local Dallas actress/singer. Upon receiving her BFA from the Meadows School of Arts, she pursued a career in proprietary education. After four years, she decided to reestablish her development as an artist. Since then, Jaquai has sung with Dallas local band Cuvee, performed as a narrator/vocalist for the International [...]
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Ryszard Stroynowski – Particle Physics – New World Waits for Discovery – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Born in Lodz, Dr. Stroynowski grew up in Warsaw, Poland. He obtained his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva while working as a research scientist at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research. Dr. Stroynowski was a Staff Scientist at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and a Senior Research Associate and Lecturer at Caltech. He [...]
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JSpear – Unveil – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Originally trained as a classical concert pianist for 12 years, JSpear simply got bored playing other people’s music. By embracing his desire to create, he learned how to speak through what he likes to call “Real Myoosk.” JSpear strongly believes that music is another language we can use to express ourselves on completely different levels, [...]
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Isake Akanke Slaughter – My Soul Cries – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Isake brings greetings from Augusta, GA. She is a senior at SMU pursuing her B.F.A. in theatre performance with a focus on acting. After graduation she wants to attend American Repertory Theater or Yale School of Drama to further her professional theatre training. Isake is the recipient of the Meadows Artistic Scholarship. Her latest projects [...]
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Daniel Poku – CauseCakes – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Daniel is a junior at SMU where he has had the privilege of serving as one of the founders of the community service organization, Mustang Heroes. At SMU, Daniel feels humbled that his record of initiative and service has been honored by SMU’s prestigious Hunt Leadership Scholarship. Daniel’s proudest and continuing achievement is a service [...]
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Tammy Nguyen Lee – Starting My Movement – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Tammy is a film/television producer, actor and philanthropist. She graduated from SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts with a BA in Cinema and received a MFA from UCLA’s elite Producers Program. Her feature documentary debut, OPERATION BABYLIFT: THE LOST CHILDREN OF VIETNAM, screened at over a dozen festivals internationally and won two prestigious awards. She [...]
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Katrina Leshan (session two) – Performance – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Originally from Las Vegas, Katrina is in her fourth year at the Meadows School of the Arts, pursuing a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Guitar Performance and participating in the University’s Honors Program. She studies with world-renowned guitarist Robert Guthrie and gives recitals at SMU each semester. In April 2011, Katrina and her partner [...]
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Katrina Leshan (session one) – Performance – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Originally from Las Vegas, Katrina is in her fourth year at the Meadows School of the Arts, pursuing a Bachelor of Music Degree in Classical Guitar Performance and participating in the University’s Honors Program. She studies with world-renowned guitarist Robert Guthrie and gives recitals at SMU each semester. In April 2011, Katrina and her partner [...]
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Lane Johnson – Slowing the Progression of Alzheimer’s – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Lane is a Dallasite, mother, and grandmother, who after a career in the corporate world in human resources has entered SMU’s Counseling Program to pursue her passion; psychology and the aging. She obtained her undergraduate in Psychology from UTD. Besides being driven to learn, Lane loves the outdoors (especially the mountains), and enjoys spending time [...]
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Brandon Lazarus – It’s Not What You Know, It’s Who You Know – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Brandon is a third year Masters of Divinity student at Perkins School of Theology at SMU. He currently lives in the Dietrich Bonhoeffer House, which is a new monastic community located in Old East Dallas. He and three other residents live under a rule of life in which they commit to give to their community [...]
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Kevin Lavelle: No = Go – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Kevin just launched his first company: Mizzen+Main. Mizzen+Main does things differently – things others say are impossible. The goal of Mizzen+Main is to bring jobs back to America with quality, style, and superior functionality. The company believes in inspiring others and measures success in ways other than just profit. Mizzen+Main has designed the premier moisture [...]
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Hank Hammett – Opera In and Out of the Box – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Hank is an artist teacher, award-winning director and acting coach who has trained singing actors in the organic fields of music, voice, theatre arts, acting technique, opera, musical theatre and strategic performance skills for over two decades. Hammett has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in television and film, and continues to work at the world’s most [...]
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Rick Halperin – The Current Status of Human Rights – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Rick Halperin is the director of the SMU Embrey Human Rights Education Program. Rick holds degrees from George Washington University, SMU and Auburn University. He has also studied at The Sorbonne in Paris. Rick has held numerous positions of importance in organizations concerned with human rights and social justice. He is a past chair of [...]
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Christian Genco – You Should Learn to Program – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Christian is an SMU President’s Scholar majoring in Computer Science with a premedical specialization. He has an affinity for tech startups, a knack for web development, and a fascination with the rapid progress of technology and its implications on the future of human society. Christian is on a mission to inspire the world to learn [...]
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Carl Dorvil – The Four P’s of Success – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Carl grew up in Garland, the son of Haitian immigrants who instilled in their children the importance of education at an early age. With his parents’ influence, and having developed his own passion for education, in 2004 Dorvil founded a tutoring/mentoring company, Group Excellence. He first started the company out of his dorm room at [...]
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Erin Crosby – The Bridge to Nowhere – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Erin is the communications director for the Center on Communities and Education and also oversees student engagement, collaborating with SMU faculty and students to design civic engagement projects at schools and community organizations in The School Zone, West Dallas. She holds a Master’s degree in print journalism from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in [...]
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Kate Canales – Empathy and Innovation – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Kate is the director of Design and Innovation Programs at the Lyle School of Engineering. She has a background in product design, design research and design strategy. Her area of focus is innovation through an understanding of human needs and behavior. Kate has worked as a designer and researcher at IDEO and as a creative [...]
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Christopher Bhatti – Benefit of Being Comfortable with the Uncomfortable – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Chris is director of External Affairs and Alumni Relations in the Office of the Dean at SMU’s Simmons School. Prior to SMU, Chris was a science instructor at The Hockaday School for six years. Chris also serves as an executive coach/consultant to Group Excellence, the largest tutoring company in Dallas which works with over 12,000 [...]
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Willie Baronet – Rethinking Home – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Willie is an artist, professor, and life/business coach living in Dallas, TX. For 15 years he owned and managed an advertising design firm, which he sold in 2006. He graduated in 2011 with an MFA in Arts & Technology from UTD. He currently teaches full time in the Temerlin Advertising Institute at SMU. Willie has [...]
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Adam A. Anderson – Spoken Word Performance – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Adam is pursuing a BFA in theater with a specialization in acting from the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU. Though currently studying acting, as a child he never thought he would have a future in the arts. Born in Englewood, NJ, his childhood passion was architectural design. But, after moving to Florida and [...]
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Jonathan Wentz – Road to 2012 Paralympics – TEDxSMU Salon 2012
Postscript: Sadly, on September 30, 2012, Jonathan suddenly passed away at just 21 years old, and just two weeks after speaking at TEDxSMU. Our TEDxSMU community grieves the loss of such an incredible individual. Jonathan was first put on a horse at the age of two for physical therapy to combat the affects of cerebral [...]
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Shane Pennington – Transcendence (2011 Art Installation)
Shane Pennington’s Transcendence from tedxsmu on Vimeo. Shane Pennington’s Transcendence , engages the core of his artistic inquiries on a new level of spatiality and scale. Using the traditional Karesansui Japanese rock garden as an inspirational template, Pennington transforms the traditionally earth-bound elements of the garden into a dialogue between the environment and humanity. The [...]
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Behind the Scenes at TEDxSMU 2011
Our incredible friends at Wright IMC have been hard at work since September cooking up a behind the scenes video of the conference. Voila! Today we unveil the finished product. Take a look at what it’s like backstage and before the show starting with the TEDxSMU Auditions in October 2011 and ending at this year’s [...]
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TEDxKids @SMU 2011 – A Snapshot
TEDxSMU-Kids from Jim Young on Vimeo. Thanks to long-time TEDster and TEDxSMU Steering Committee member Jim Young for creating this awesome video of TEDxKids @SMU for us!
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TEDxKids @SMU: Imagine That
Ever wondered what happens when you take the TEDx concept and put it in front of 400 middle and high school students? Check out this fantastic video produced by Sneaky Giants about TEDxKids @SMU.
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Jaume Plensa – Art & Form – TEDxSMU 2011
Jaume Plensa, born in Barcelona in 1955, has been working internationally as an artist since 1980. A winner of both national and international awards, Plensa’s prolific work encapsulates themes of globalization and human presence. He has experimented with a number of different mediums such as steel, bronze, synthetic resins, light, alabaster, marble, sound, plastics and [...]
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Jasmin Brand – What Tina & Ike Have in Common with Social Media – TEDxSMU 2011
Jasmin is the Chief Marketing Officer for Brandpointe, a company she launched in 2007 that specializes in connecting individuals and medium sized firms with e-learning and social media solutions. With an extensive background in marketing, sales and consumer engagement, Jasmin is passionate about creating and growing online communities and serves as a social media consultant, [...]
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Bruce Wood and Nycole Ray – The Edge of My Life So Far -TEDxSMU 2011
Bruce makes dances. A nationally acclaimed artistic director, performer, teacher; he has created more than 75 contemporary works over the past 15 years. His choreography is known for its poignant insights into present-day life charged with emotional undercurrents, rich imagery, wide range of subject matter, and audience appeal. At age 16, Wood left his native [...]
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Maya Ajmera – Helping the Children – TEDxSMU 2011
Maya is one of the world’s most eloquent voices for children’s rights globally as a social entrepreneur and celebrated children’s book author. She is the founder of The Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit organization that invests in innovative community-based organizations serving the most vulnerable children and youth of the world. The Global Fun for [...]
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Jeff Fulgham – Clean Water for the Future – TEDxSMU 2011
About Jeff Fulgham: Jeff recently joined Banyan Water as the CSO (Chief Sales, Service, Strategy and Sustainability Officer). Banyan Water is a private equity-backed firm transforming the water management landscape. Banyan is building an enterprise water management platform—addressing water scarcity and infrastructure damage—for private customers at the end points of the water grid. Banyan is [...]
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Scott Douglas – Making Music – TEDxSMU 2011
Scott Douglas is an SMU professor, researcher, educator and entrepreneur who has had a lifelong passion and interest in sound and music. He developed one of the first successful procedures for the active cancellation of sound in a room over 15 years ago. More recently, he developed mathematical techniques for picking out and recording individual [...]
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Peter Thum – Guns to Jewelry – TEDxSMU 2011
Peter Thum is the founder of Fonderie 47, a company transforming perspectives and saving lives in Africa by disarming conflict zones and remaking AK47s it destroys into jewelry, watches and accessories. To date, Fonderie 47 has destroyed over 3,000 guns in DR Congo. As the founder and president of Ethos™ Water, Peter turned his idea [...]
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Jose Bowen – Beethoven as Bill Gates – TEDxSMU 2011
José Bowen, Dean of the Meadows School at SMU, has taught at Stanford and Georgetown, written over 100 scholarly articles, edited the Cambridge Companion to Conducting, and appeared as a musician in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the US with Stan Getz, Bobby McFerrin and others. He has written a symphony (nominated for the [...]
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Peter Brown – Art & Designing a City – TEDxSMU2011
Architect Peter Brown works on big ideas for large and small projects. He is principal of Peter Brown Architects, a design and strategy firm that collaborates with clients to transform the way people work, live, learn, create, and enjoy. At any given time you might find Peter in Florida, creating a middle school that moves [...]
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Kate Canales – The Power of Design – TEDxSMU 2011
Kate is a Creative Director at frog, a global design and innovation firm. Her work at frog focuses on design research and creative infrastructure. Kate leads initiatives for clients looking to refine creative strategy or increase innovation capabilities. Prior to frog, Kate spent many years as a content leader at IDEO, frog’s most worthy rival. [...]
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Brent Brown – Building Community – TEDxSMU 2011
Brent Brown, AIA, LEED AP, is a Dallas architect who works daily to balance social, economic and environmental issues by deploying design to enhance livability for all Dallas’ residents. Through his efforts Dallas is re-visioning how it lives, works and plays. In 2005, Mr. Brown founded the buildingcommunity WORKSHOP (bcWORKSHOP), a local nonprofit community design [...]
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Juan Enriquez – Homo Evolutis – TEDxSMU 2011
Juan Enriquez is an experienced business leader, author, and academic who is recognized as one of the world’s leading authorities on the economic and political impacts of life sciences. He is a Managing Director in Excel Venture Management, a venture capital firm that invests in companies that apply transformative life science technologies to solve problems [...]
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Homaro Cantu – Food You Can Play With – TEDxSMU 2011
Chef Homaro Cantu is an internationally recognized chef and leader in the field of postmodern cuisine and an inventor of futuristic food delivery systems. Chef Cantu graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute in Portland, Oregon. After developing his culinary skills at several establishments along the West Coast he traveled to Chicago to work at [...]
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Jaewon Ahn, TEDxSMU 2011
Piano accompaniment by Alberto Peña. Jaewon spent the first twelve years of her life in Korea where she won several competitions, among them the prestigious Strad competition. She was a member of the Cheon-An Youth Symphony Orchestra. In 2004, she moved to Calgary and began studies with John Kadz at the Mount Royal Conservatory. A [...]
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Belinda Baldwin – The Power of You – TEDxSMU 2011
Belinda Baldwin is a Dallas based audience development director for a diversified media group including television, web and mobile. She teaches a graduate level advertising course at SMU and writes on the topic of media, popular culture and social change for a variety of magazines and journals including the Harvard Book Review, The Advocate, [...]
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Elise Ballard – Epiphanies – TEDxSMU 2011
Elise is an actress, independent filmmaker, author and creator of EpiphanyChannel.com. She started her career in entertainment working as an actress before moving into production work. Her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, TX, became a cult hit and still sells [...]
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Karen Blessen – A Lesson for Peace – TEDxSMU 2011
Karen Blessen is the President and Founder of 29 Pieces, a non-profit organization which is about monumental art and monumental change. It is art with a purpose — to uplift, teach and heal. The 29 Pieces refer to 29 large sculptures, inspired by sacred passages from the world’s faith traditions. Currently these exist as drawings [...]
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Will Clarke – Disrupting the Cycle of Hazing – TEDxSMU 2011
Will is the author of Lord Vishnu’s Love Handles and The Worthy from Simon & Schuster. Both novels were selected as The New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice and garnered Clarke the title “Hot Pop Prophet” by Rolling Stone Magazine. Will is also the Executive Creative Director at The Integer Group. He lives in [...]
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Mant Hawkins – A Green, Clean Future? – TEDxSMU 2011
Mant Hawkins is the CEO of Enoetics, LLC a high performance energy reduction company that designs and constructs buildings, campuses, and facilities that make more energy than they use. Recently his work has been focused on a disruptive business model that dramatically changes the energy services industry making “net zero” (no utility bill) facilities a [...]
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Lisa Loeb at TEDxSMU 2011
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb started her career with the platinum-selling No. 1 hit “Stay (I Missed You)” from the film Reality Bites and has parlayed that early success into a multi-dimensional career encompassing music, film, television, voice-over work and children’s recordings. Her acclaimed studio releases include the Gold-selling Tails and its follow-up, the Grammy-nominated and [...]
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Sam Youdal – TEDxSMU 2011
Sam Youdal is a Director at KPMG in Houston, TX, and believes that global coordination is one way to help mitigate and navigate chaos created when natural disasters occur.
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Vladimir Jovanovic – Seeing What’s Behind You – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Vladimir Jovanovic is an immigrant to the US. He has lived in the DFW Metroplex area for the past 15 years, and goes to college at Southern Methodist University. He studies Computer Science and Psychology with plans to further his education in graduate school. His academic interests vary from astronomy to data mining and biology. [...]
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Maya Ajmera – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Maya is one of the world’s most eloquent voices for children’s rights globally as a social entrepreneur and celebrated children’s book author. She is the founder of The Global Fund for Children, a nonprofit organization that invests in innovative community-based organizations serving the most vulnerable children and youth of the world. The Global Fun for [...]
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Simon Cohen – Building Bridges – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Simon Cohen is a freshman, majoring in visual arts, at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing Arts in Dallas, Texas. He has a broad range of interests ranging from architecture to competitive power knitting, but is particularly interested in the integration of engineering and aesthetics in design. Outside of school, he practices tae [...]
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Sharon & Sam Blumberg – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Sharon Blumberg is a mom, artist, volunteer, and entrepreneur. She loves hiking, biking, yoga, and the arts. Her passion is to use art to inspire kids to dream big. She is the founder of a new brand called CHOOZE, whose mission is not only to encourage kids to be extraordinary, but to engage kids in [...]
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Tierney Thys – For the Fish! – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Tierney Thys is ardent ocean scientist, conservationist, media producer and National Geographic Emerging Explorer. After receiving her PhD studying fish biomechanics at Duke University, she became enthralled with the power of film to teach science and convey conservation messages. As Director of Research at Sea Studios Foundation in California, she made films for National Geographic [...]
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Tali Marx – Getting a Global View – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Tali Marx is 18 and a senior at Thomas Edison State College. She is a self-proclaimed adventure seeker, super-nerd, and idealistic dreamer. She has a diverse background in the arts and is passionate about historical reenactment, cultural studies, and European folk music. A lover of world travel, she has visited 14 countries. Since childhood, Talitha [...]
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Bo Hughes – Life After TEDxKids – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Bo Hughes, a current ninth grader at St. Stephen’s Episcopal School in Austin, TX, attended TEDxKids @SMU last year with St. John’s Episcopal School in Dallas. While here, he heard Will Watson, an ambassador for Falling Whistles, speak and share his inspiring story. Falling Whistles is an organization that works to eliminate and rehabilitate child [...]
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Elise Ballard – Epiphanies! – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Elise is an actress, independent filmmaker, author and creator of EpiphanyChannel.com. She started her career in entertainment working as an actress before moving into production work. Her critically acclaimed directorial debut, Lord of the Wiens: A Dachumentary, a movie about the annual Wiener Dog Races in Buda, TX, became a cult hit and still sells [...]
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Jeff Fulgham – Water for the Future – TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Jeff recently joined Banyan Water as the CSO (Chief Sales, Service, Strategy and Sustainability Officer). Banyan Water is a private equity-backed firm transforming the water management landscape. Banyan is building an enterprise water management platform—addressing water scarcity and infrastructure damage—for private customers at the end points of the water grid. Banyan is accelerating its go-to-market [...]
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Lisa Loeb, TEDxKids @SMU 2011
Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb started her career with the platinum-selling No. 1 hit “Stay (I Missed You)” from the film Reality Bites and has parlayed that early success into a multi-dimensional career encompassing music, film, television, voice-over work and children’s recordings. Her acclaimed studio releases include the Gold-selling Tails and its follow-up, the Grammy-nominated and [...]
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Dr. William Abraham – TEDxSMU 2011 Salon
Note: This talk was given in February 2011 as a follow up to Dr. Abraham’s 2009 TEDxSMU talk at a small TEDxSMU Salon. Dr. Abraham was born in Northern Ireland in 1947. He is currently the Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies at Perkins School of Theology at SMU. Educated at Portora Royal School, [...]
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Majka Burhardt at TEDxSMU 2010
Majka Burhardt is a writer, climber, and American Mountain Guides Association Certified Rock Guide. A lifelong adventurer, she has traveled and guided throughout the world by bike, canoe, and, more often than not, by foot. Much of Majka’s recent work has been focused on Africa, where she first went to Ethiopia in search of a [...]
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Rives Talks With His Hands – TEDxSMU 2010
Flat pages can’t contain Rives’ storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop‑up books he creates for children unfold with surprise. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, too, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats: childhood memories, grown‑up humor, notions of love, of what is lost forever, and of what’s still out there [...]
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Rabbi David Stern – Round Trip Spirituality – TEDxSMU 2010
Rabbi David Stern is Senior Rabbi of Temple Emanu‑El in Dallas, Texas. Prior to joining Temple Emanu‑El, David served as an intern at Central Synagogue in New York City. Rabbi Stern attended Hebrew Union College‑Jewish Institute of Religion at its Jerusalem, New York, and Los Angeles campuses, receiving his rabbinical ordination in 1989, his M.A. [...]
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Omar Jahwar Tells Us a “True Story” at TEDxSMU 2010
Omar Jahwar tackles the politics and issues that affect inner city youth in the Dallas community. Emerging as an important leader and outspoken voice in the community, he is the founder of Vision Regeneration, Inc., a life‑shaping entity designed to assist the social sculpting of inner city youth. Based on the philosophy that crime and [...]
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SMU Innovation Gym @ TEDxSMU 2010
Austin Hodges is a junior at Southern Methodist University, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Austin’s current interests are artificial intelligence programming and biometrics. Austin works as a member of the SMU Biometrics Research Team, where his primary focus is on developing and testing iris recognition algorithms on various platforms. Austin is also an [...]
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Ray Zahab @ TEDxSMU 2010
On November 1, 2006 Ray and two other runners set out on an epic expedition to cross the Sahara Desert by foot. One hundred and eleven days and 7500 kms after leaving the coast of Senegal, they completed their journey by dipping their toes into the Red Sea. After witnessing and experiencing the water crisis [...]
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Bill Lively at TEDxSMU 2010
Through the winter of 2011, Bill Lively was President and CEO of the North Texas Super Bowl XLV Host Committee. From 2000 through 2008 Bill Lively served as the founding President and CEO of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts. During his tenure as President and CEO, the Center raised more than $334 million [...]
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Stephen Mills – Light: The Holocaust & Humanity Project – TEDxSMU 2010
Under the artistic leadership of Stephen Mills, Ballet Austin has emerged as one of the nation’s premiere dance organizations, recognized by the Washington Post in 2004 as “one of the nation’s best‑kept secrets.” Stephen attracted national media attention with his production of Hamlet in 2000 and led Ballet Austin to perform at The John F. [...]
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Baba Brinkman Gives a Rap Guide to Evolution – TEDxSMU 2010
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian actor and rap artist and former tree‑planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. Baba has received international acclaim for his rap comedy theatre shows, which cover topics as diverse as evolutionary psychology, the Canterbury Tales, democracy, and civil disobedience. Last year he won the Scotsman Fringe First [...]
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Frans Lanting at TEDxSMU 2010
Frans Lanting has been hailed as one of the great nature photographers of our time. His influential work appears in books, magazines, and exhibitions around the world. For more than two decades he has documented wildlife and our relationship with nature in environments from the Amazon to Antarctica. He portrays wild creatures as ambassadors for [...]
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Greg Harper at TEDxKIDS@SMU 2010
Greg is President of Harpervision Associates, a firm dedicated to assisting businesses develop and implement new visual and aural communication technologies. He is also co-founder of Gadgetoff, a unique annual event that gathers leading technologist and innovators in an exclusive gathering dedicated to new technologies. Greg is a recognized futurist who is currently focusing on [...]
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Grace Gilker – TEDxKids @SMU 2010
Grace is a freshman at The Hockaday School in Dallas, Texas, where she is active in sports, theater and music. She is also active in the Youth Group and the Youth Choir at First United Methodist Church. Over the past four years, she has been a delegate to the General Elementary Model United Nations, and [...]
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Connor Brantley – TEDxKids @SMU 2010
Connor Brantley attends McLean Middle School in Fort Worth, TX. Connor is a Presidential history, government, and political enthusiast. His political experience includes interning on a gubernatorial campaign, volunteering on a Presidential campaign and working at a state party convention. Connor also enjoys working in the community. He co-organized a pet food drive and worked [...]
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Ray Zahab @ TEDxKids @SMU 2010
On November 1, 2006 Ray and two other runners set out on an epic expedition to cross the Sahara Desert by foot. One hundred and eleven days and 7500 kms after leaving the coast of Senegal, they completed their journey by dipping their toes into the Red Sea. After witnessing and experiencing the water crisis [...]
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SMU Innovation Gym @ TEDxKids @SMU 2010
Austin Hodges is a junior at Southern Methodist University, double majoring in Computer Science and Mathematics. Austin’s current interests are artificial intelligence programming and biometrics. Austin works as a member of the SMU Biometrics Research Team, where his primary focus is on developing and testing iris recognition algorithms on various platforms. Austin is also an [...]
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Baba Brinkman – TEDxKids @SMU 2010
Baba Brinkman is a Canadian actor and rap artist and former tree‑planter who has personally planted more than one million trees. Baba has received international acclaim for his rap comedy theatre shows, which cover topics as diverse as evolutionary psychology, the Canterbury Tales, democracy, and civil disobedience. Last year he won the Scotsman Fringe First [...]
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Mick Ebeling at TEDxKIDS @SMU 2010
Mick’s quest to make cool stuff has been relentless. For the last 10 years, he and the other insomniacs at The Ebeling Group have been making things like James Bond main titles, Grammy nominated music videos, commercials for Fortune 100 brands, and Cannes Lion winning branded content. Two years ago Mick was inspired by his [...]
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Daniella Willis at TEDxKIDS @SMU 2010
As a junior at The Oakridge School in Arlington, TX, Daniella Willis is already an accomplished poet. Daniella has performed as a slam poet at the Tulisoma Book Fair, Waco Arts Festival, South Dallas Cultural Center, and The Embargo Café. She recently competed in the Brave New Voices National Competition in Los Angeles. She created [...]
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Will Watson at TEDxKIDS@SMU 2010
William Watson was born in 1989 in Sherman, Texas. After graduating from high school, he spent six months in East Africa as a photographer and volunteer before starting university at Sewanee: the University of the South, where he is a double major in International and Global Studies and Art. During his time at Sewanee, Will [...]
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Robert Freling – Electricity & the UN Millennium Development Goals – TEDxSMU’s Live Cast of TEDxChange
Solar Electric Light Fund Executive Director Bob Freling spoke at TEDxSMU’s live cast of TEDxChange about how electricity is crucial to achieving the UN Millenium Development Goals.
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What Will Change Everything? 2009
TEDxSMU 2009 attendees answer the question: “what will change everything?”
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Kyle Martin Shares the Beauty of Barefoot Running at TEDxSMU 2009
During another short audience talk at TEDxSMU 2009, Kyle Martin gave us the skinny on the beauty of barefoot running.
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Stan Greene Recites an Ode to Pluto at TEDxSMU 2009
Our favorite 45-second (yes, 45-second!) TEDxSMUTalk ever. Enjoy Stan Greene, Director of the Davinci School, as he gives an Ode to Pluto post its demotion from planetary status.
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Rogers Hartmann at TEDxSMU 2009
Rogers Hartmann talks about life before and after a diagnosis of Dystonia
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Joshua Prince-Ramus at TEDxSMU 2009 on TED.com
Joshua Prince-Ramus on a theater that re-makes itself
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William Kamwamba + Bryan Mealer at TEDxSMU 2009
William and Bryan talk about building a windmill out of scrap
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Jeffrey Talley at TEDxSMU 2009
Jeff Talley talks about engineering the peace at TEDxSMU 2009.
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TEDxSMU 2009 Life Straw Demo
Mary Moore and Rives demo a personal water purification system
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Aaron Reedy at TEDxSMU 2009
Aaron Reedy travels the Mississippi River for the sake of education
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Anousheh Ansari at TEDxSMU 2009
Anousheh Ansari asks, “Can you change everything?” at TEDxSMU 2009
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Tanya Pinto – Baal Dan Means Thank You – TEDxSMU 2009
Raised in India, Dubai and Australia, Tanya graduated from Australia’s Curtin University in 1998. She began working for The Richards Group in 1999, the nation’s largest independent branding agency. In 2005, Tanya took a sabbatical to work in an orphanage in India. Tanya’s experience working at Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Calcutta was life-changing and she [...]
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Rives Tells a Tale of Trespassing – TEDxSMU 2009
Flat pages can’t contain Rives’ storytelling, even when paper is his medium. The pop‑up books he creates for children unfold with surprise. On stage, his poems burst in many directions, too, exposing multiple layers and unexpected treats: childhood memories, grown‑up humor, notions of love, of what is lost forever, and of what’s still out there [...]
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Dave Weaver Asks “What’s a TED?” at TEDxSMU 2009
Dave Weaver is an ad agency president, a relentless self-experimenter, a provocateur, long-time TEDster, and…according to many, “a darn nice guy.” Dave Weaver joined Cheil-owned “One Agency” as President in January 2011. A native Iowan, Dave is a 20-year advertising and marketing veteran. He has conceived and implemented marketing programs and advertising campaigns that have [...]
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