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About Me

Location:
United States, Purchase, NY
Current organization:
TEDxDuke
Current role:
Student
Gender:
Female
Areas of expertise:
Decision sciences, Public Policy
I am:
Athlete, Brainstormer, Environmentalist, Event planner, Explorer, Idea generator, Policy maker, Project manager, Student, Technologist
Universities:
Duke University
TED conferences attended:
TEDActive 2012, TEDActive 2011
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More About Me

I'm passionate about

Analyzing, simplifying, and solving the world’s problems.
Finding commonalities between all people.
Making my own path in life and doing things that make me happy.

An idea worth spreading

Christiania, Denmark. Look it up or ask me about it.

Talk to me about

iPhone apps, music festivals, computer games, how many bikes have gotten stolen from me, why I hate blogs, what I should do with my life.

People don't know that I'm good at

Speedwalking, speedwalking backwards, making up games. I'm also double jointed in my shoulders and can do a really cool trick with my nose.

My TED Story

I was introduced to TED in the spring of 2010 and got the license to hold TEDxDuke in April. I am pretty inexperienced but driven to make it a great event and it WILL BE! Now that I am at TEDActive I have never been more sure of that. April 2nd, 2011. CONTACT ME AT CLU3@DUKE.EDU WITH QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS!

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  • A comment on Talk: Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs

    Jun 22 2010: I think that the ethical issues of his childhood experiences are central to his argument. His whole point is that, as a society, we must start to recognize entrepreneurial traits in children in the same way that we recognize aptitude in science, math, or language-learning. What makes innate entrepreneurial talent different from talent in those other subjects though is that the same traits also may enable children to exploit others.

    Children do not have a developed moral code. If anything, I think that the controversy discussed in these comments should strengthen his argument. If we are able to recognize these traits (hyperactivity and attention deficit, stubbornness, leadership, etc.) we will not only make successful leaders but we can also cultivate moral leaders. If we cater to their needs and educate them to be the best entrepreneurs they can be, we can encourage corporate social responsibility rather than cheating the system.

  • A reply on Talk: David Cameron: The next age of government

    Jun 17 2010: Great points. To expand on what you said, it seems like behavioral economics can only manifest in policy in the US by borrowing from both sides of the isle. The GOP (tea partiers are an extreme case) side represents minimal government and the 'power to the people,' idea, while the Democratic view enables enough government intervention to put incentives in place that 'go with the grain of human nature.' And now that I'm thinking about it more, economists in general tend to be non-partisan, probably because of this same tradeoff. It also adds to why David Cameron is widely viewed as moderate, and it sheds light on problems in our party system versus Britain's. It's much harder to come to incentive-based regulations in an efficient time frame when one side favors command-and-control, the other favors free market, and they are in direct competition. Thanks for the thought provoking comment!

    *And then I found it: "liberal paternalism." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_paternalism
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    A comment on Talk: David Cameron: The next age of government

    Jun 1 2010: Does anyone know if most behavioral economists are conservatives? Or is there not a correlation?

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