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We’re SO excited about getting our TEDxBloomington speakers’ videos posted on YouTube … and we heard that you’d like to watch them in order, to see how the speakers’ pres ...
Shawn Achor
Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard. His research a ...
Muffy Davis
Muffy Davis is a World Champion disabled ski racer, having won more than 25 World Cup titles, two Overall World Cup victories and 4 Paralympic Medals. When she was 16, a devastating ski racing accid ...
Robert Scoble
Robert Scoble is a well-known technology blogger/evangelist and author. Scoble is best known for his blog, Scobleizer, which came to prominence during his tenure as a technical evangelist at Mic ...
Charlie Todd
Charlie Todd is the founder of Improv Everywhere, producing, directing, performing, and documenting the group’s work for over eight years. The group carries out pranks, which they call “mi ...
Marc and Sara Schiller
Together, Marc and Sara Schiller are Wooster Collective: a contemporary art and street art collective. Their mission is to discover and document authentic art experiences via salons, publishing, ga ...
Sarah Elizabeth Ippel
Sarah Elizabeth Ippel‘s life mission is education reform. She is the founder and executive director of the Academy for Global Citizenship, a Chicago public elementary school that opened in 2008 ...
Amy Yurko
Amy Yurko, AIA, is an architect. She is also an educator, writer, speaker/presenter, and community volunteer. Amy Yurko is the founder of BrainSpaces, a consulting firm that offers collaborative vis ...
DJ Shiftee
DJ Shiftee: 2x DMC World Champ + Harvard Math Grad + Party Rocker + Turntablist + Producer New York City’s DJ Shiftee has translated his intuitive math geek mentality into far-reaching success ...
Nolan Harrison III
During his 10-year NFL career spanning 128 games, Nolan Harrison became known as a steady, consistent defensive lineman who played for the Raiders, Steelers and Redskins. Drafted in 2001 by the Los A ...
Keith Johnson
Keith Johnson was raised in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula (where he learned at an early age he was related to Johnny Appleseed), and has been a commercial landscaper, stonemason, and organic gar ...
Dr. Debby Herbenick
Dr. Debby Herbenick is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of MySexProfessor.com. She is also the author of Because It Feels Good: A Woman’s Guide to Sexual Pleasure and Satisfaction and the Associ ...
An-shu Stephen Kinryu-Jien Hayes
An-shu Stephen Kinryu-Jien Hayes, Founder of To-Shin Do Kasumi-An Ninja Martial Arts has spent his entire adult life in the pursuit of perfection through the study of the Asian martial arts and spiri ...
Jeff Han
Jeff Han is a former 2006 TED Speaker and the founder of Perceptive Pixel, the developer of the most advanced multi-touch solutions in the world. Unfortunately, Jeff needed to cancel his appearance at ...
Bryan Stuart
Bryan Stuart helped create the Corps and Intern programs for One Laptop per Child (OLPC). He has worked with government officials, teachers, and volunteers to improve access to quality education for c ...
Seth Frey
Seth Frey is a student of community and cooperation on the ground, in the ivory tower, and everywhere in between. On the ground he has devoted himself to the cooperative movement, developing member-ow ...
Lindsay Manfredi
Lindsay Manfredi is one of the co-founders of Girls Rock Indianapolis, a non-profit rock n roll day camp dedicated to building positive self-esteem and encouraging creative expression through music in ...
Edward Castronova
Edward Castronova, Professor of Telecommunications at Indiana University, is a founder of scholarly online game studies and an expert on the societies of virtual worlds. Among his academic publication ...
Jessica Schroeder Quirk
Jessica Schroeder Quirk is the author behindWhat I Wore, a personal-style and fashion-based blog, and What I Wore: Four Seasons, One Closet, Endless Recipes for Personal Style, due in bookstores this ...
Jeff Nelsen
World-renowned horn player, educator, and fearless performance coach Jeff Nelsen has an obvious and contagious passion for dynamic engagements. Jeff’s pig-farming, opera-singing parents provided ...
Sarah Smith-Robbins
Sarah “Intellagirl” Smith-Robbins is the Director of Emerging Technologies at Kelley Executive Partners as well as a member of the Marketing faculty at the Kelley School of Business. She r ...
Corey Jefferson
A Bloomington native, Corey Jefferson began acting and studying improvisational performance while a student at Bloomington High School South in 2000. He co-founded two Bloomington-based improv comedy ...
Arbutus Cunningham
Arbutus Cunningham is a mendacious and crabby old woman of aquatic antecedents who emerged fully formed and slightly damp from the forehead of a large pelagic frog off the coast of Sumatra shortly bef ...
Gever Tulley
Gever Tulley has made it his mission to re-introduce the world to children: the real world as revealed through unscripted, hands-on, meaningful learning experiences. He says, Children today are incre ...
Stephen Volan
Stephen Volan was diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome at the age of 37. Before the diagnosis, there was no term for him to describe and explain his behavior or his difficulty in navigating the mi ...