Sarah Kay is a writer, performer and educator from New York City.

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Sarah Kay has shared her poems in cornfields in Iowa, an orthodontist's office in Nepal, a ship on a fjord in Norway, a nightclub in Singapore, the Royal Danish Theatre in Denmark, Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the back rooms of dive-bars, middle school gymnasiums and once on top of someone's dining room table. She was the 2022 New Arizona Fellow at New America and is the author of four books of poetry: No Matter the Wreckage, B, The Type and All Our Wild Wonder. Kay is the founder and co-director of Project VOICE, an organization that uses poetry to entertain, educate and inspire students and teachers worldwide.

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Live from TED2022

Awe: Notes from Session 11 of TED2022

April 14, 2022

What a week! Eleven mainstage sessions of TED Talks, two sessions of TED Fellows talks, an incredible array of on-site activations, countless Discovery Sessions, parties, dinners and more made TED2022 a triumphant return to Vancouver. The closing session of the conference capped off the week with world-changing ideas from the mountains of Nepal to the […]

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