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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Designing inspiring learning experiences.
Asking questions.
Travel.
Taking risks.
Sleep.

Sometimes writing.

An idea worth spreading

How ideas spread

Talk to me about

Your dreams, something funny, how ideas spread

People don't know that I'm good at

Remaining calm in crisis; creating opportunities for others and connecting people.

My TED Story

I founded TEDxEast in collaboration with a wonderful committee and community. TEDxEast has become a large annual event in NYC that hosts 4 salons per year curated by TED speakers as well as a big event which hosts 1000 members of our community. Our big event will be held at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. As our community grows, we seek to offer our local community a TED-like experience in NYC. To do so we draw on the resources of NYC and highlight talent from NYC and beyond. Thanks to our partnerships with the History Channel, BBC, Canoe Ventures, Lincoln Automobiles and Goldstar we are forging new ground for our TEDx events. We organize events and ways to connect the community between events to continue building the TEDxEast community in NYC.

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• A comment on Talk: Elyn Saks: A tale of mental illness -- from the inside

  Jun 29 2012: Love this talk-courageous, eloquent.
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  A comment on Conversation: If raising children is one of the most important things we do in society, shouldn't the subject be directly taught in schools?

  May 7 2011: Who decides the best way to do so? We may be able to agree on outcomes but the path to get there is so individual for each child and adult involved- seems dicey to propose 'teaching parenting'.

• A comment on Conversation: Combine Khan's content with self-discipline system in schools.

  Mar 16 2011: I agree that the other learners in the room are the key levers to any sort of socially constructed learning. But the next question is how...
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  A comment on Conversation: Should anyone be able to upload their TEDTalk to TED.com?

  Feb 17 2011: I think a big part of curation is knowing what to leave OUT. Having done a small amount of speaker selection for my TEDx event- I cannot tell you how many pitches I get to sell and to self-promote. Ick. I think a big part of the TED love I feel is rooted in the trust of the curation...
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  A comment on Conversation: Test Schools, Not Children

  Feb 15 2011: Gever- love this idea. Actually, how about we let the kids offer assessments of the schools and teachers as it relates to engagement, learning and mastery. Students know what they are interested in, when they have been supported to engage and discover their own interests.
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  A comment on Talk: Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system

  Feb 22 2010: "People no longer feel free to act on their best judgment." This dynamic is crushing the learning that should be taking place in schools. Connect this to Sir Ken Robinson's talk and it begins the conversation for conceptions of 21st century schools.