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Theme: ICONS \ GENIUSES \ MAVERICKS

This event occurred on
August 20, 2015
1:00pm - 6:00pm PDT
(UTC -7hrs)
Orange, California
United States

Our willingness to ask big questions and seek new solutions is at the heart of being human. It’s what drives the innovators, the risk-takers and the dreamers among us. On Thursday, August 20, TEDxChapmanU 2015 will welcome extraordinary game-changers, challengers and thought-leaders to the stage at historic Memorial Hall. Come be inspired!!!

Chapman Auditorium
1 University Drive
Orange
Orange, California, 92866
United States
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Wimberley Bluegrass Band

Danielle Wimberley plays the mandolin, James Wimberley plays banjo, Mark Wimberley, his twin, plays guitar, and Michael Wimberley plays the fiddle. All band members are current Chapman students.

Ahmed Younis

Ahmed Younis is an Adjunct Assistant Professor, Ph.D. student, and International Ambassador for Global Ethics and Social Justice at The Paulo Freire Democratic Project in the College of Educational Studies at Chapman University. His courses, public lectures, and writing focus on themes surrounding: The Architecture of Social Change; Entrepreneurship and Youth Employment in the Arab World; Global Muslim Public Opinion; Islamic Law; Muslim American History; Practice, and Policy; and Critical Pedagogy and Islamic Reform for Social Change.

Brian Vellmure

Brian Vellmure helps organizations across a variety of industries and sizes accelerate growth through customer-focused transformation initiatives. In addition, he often serves as an expert advisor for the world’s most successful and innovative technology vendors and their customers, providing market and product strategy guidance and thought leadership content. He's had the privilege to compete athletically as a NCAA Division 1 football scholarship athlete, and has explored more than 40 countries on 6 continents. Domestic adventures with his wife and 3 sons keep him motivated, curious, and exhausted. He is an accomplished business leader, management consultant, keynote speaker, and an award-winning syndicated blogger.

Dotsie Bausch

In 2007, after spending 10 years as a member of the U.S. National Road Cycling Team, Bausch tried track cycling for the first time and amazingly rode on to win two national titles on the track that same year. She continued her success on the track, breaking a world record along the way, and in August 2012, Bausch became an Olympian and competed on the track in the London Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal in the team pursuit event. While Bausch has scored major victories on the bike, perhaps her greatest victory came from resurrecting her own life from the depths of severe eating disorders, which threatened to take her life over a decade ago after a promising modeling career in New York City.

Doug Woo

Woo manages supply chain, logistics, distribution, channel marketing, and sales across Fuhu’s broadening consumer product lines. He joined Fuhu in 2013 as President of the company’s Smart Display Division. He continues to be responsible for the key initiatives that reflect and carry forward the company’s core values and strategic direction.

Dr. Anthony Chang

Internationally recognized as an expert in the field of pediatric cardiology, Dr. Anthony Chang leads pediatric heart teams all over the world. He was one of the founding members of the Asia-Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society (APPCS) and will be initiating the foundation arm of the society at the bequest of the board. Dr. Chang has been voted Physician of Excellence by the Orange County Medical Association and was also selected as one of America’s Top Doctors, Top Pediatricians, and Best Cardiologists by several organizations.

Dr. Brenda Wiederhold

Dr. Wiederhold is CEO of the Virtual Reality Medical Institute in Belgium and the Executive Vice President of the Virtual Reality Medical Center in California. She completed the first randomized, controlled clinical trial to provide virtual reality medical therapy for war veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Her most recent achievement is working with coalition troops to provide stress inoculation training prior to deployment. She is further exploring the use of VR in treating patients of all ages suffering from ailments such as claustrophobia to stress disorders.

Lesley Fightmaster

Lesley Fightmaster found yoga in 2000 while trying to turn off her head from “oversharing.” She wanted to practice meditation but just couldn’t sit for more than 30 seconds without wanting to jump out of her skin! She was hooked after her first class because she was finally able to relax and quiet her mind. In 2006, she signed up for teacher training with YogaWorks to learn how to teach vinyasa flow safely and with intelligent sequencing. She leads classes in Laguna Beach, Dana Point and Newport Beach. She also leads teacher training and retreats all over the world. Fightmaster offers free online yoga classes on YouTube and currently has over 120,000 followers.

Mandy Len Catron

Originally from Appalachian Virginia, Mandy Len Catron now lives in Vancouver, B.C., where she teaches English and creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her New York Times article, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” received more than eight million views and was syndicated all over the world. She’s now working on a book about the dangers of love stories. For more information, visit The Love Story Project: thelovestoryproject.ca.

Mina Morita

Mina Morita is the Artistic Director of Crowded Fire Theater, a critically acclaimed and vital company specializing in adventurous new play production in San Francisco. Previously, Morita served as the Artistic Associate at Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was a part of the originating team for its Ground Floor Program, which is a center for the creation and development of New York. She has collaborated with a number of world-renowned directors and playwrights, including Tony Taccone and Tony Kushner for The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures, with Les Waters and Sarah Ruhl for In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (which received a Tony nomination), and Anna Deavere Smith for On Grace.

Phu Hoang

Phu Hoang is the CEO of Virtium Technology, Inc. He co-founded the company in 1997 to engineer and manufacture storage products that touch people’s lives through cell phone towers, heart monitors, in-flight entertainment, train safety monitors, military backpack laptops, and much more.

Rob Seitelman

In addition to working as a speech coach and communications consultant, Seitelman has worked professionally as an educator, actor, writer, director, and recruiter in media, financial services, and human resources. As disparate as these pursuits might seem, it is the commonalities that are most striking, especially in his work with the various clients from all of these areas who seek his expertise in public speaking and communicating. Seitelman’s work is in pursuit of the common threads that knit us together and, if heeded, help us understand our differences. A graduate of Williams College and American Conservatory Theatre’s MFA program, Rob is a maverick in spite of himself.

Ryan Gattis

Gattis is also the author of novels Kung Fu High School and Roo Kickkick & the Big Bad Blimp, as well as two novella, The Big Drop: Homecoming and The Big Drop: Impermanence. He lives and writes in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the street art crew Uglarworks.

Todd Irving

For 20 years, Todd Irving has worked as an educator in communities of rich cultural, racial, and linguistic diversity across California. For 15 of those years, he worked as a school administrator in Long Beach, Compton, San Diego, East Palo Alto and now, Santa Ana.

Organizing team

Char
Williams

Orange, CA, United States
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