Meet the TED Fellows

The 450+ TED Fellows are making headlines in over 90 countries for their incredible work in all fields. They are building companies, sequencing rare diseases, exploring the stars, making music, saving lives, mapping political violence, and much much more. Here, you can connect with TED Fellows all over the world.

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Meet the TED2018 Fellows

Isadora Kosofsky (USA)

Photojournalist + filmmaker

Photojournalist exploring underrepresented communities in America with a characteristic immersive approach, documenting senior citizen communities, developmentally disabled populations, incarcerated youth, and beyond.

Kaitlyn Sadtler (USA)

Regenerative tissue engineer

Tissue engineer harnessing the body’s natural immune system to create new regenerative medicines that mend muscle and more quickly heal wounds.

Claire Simeone (USA)

Marine mammal veterinarian

Veterinarian and conservationist studying how the health of marine mammals, such as sea lions and dolphins, informs and influences both human and ocean health.

DeAndrea Salvador (USA)

Environmental justice advocate

Sustainability expert and founder of RETI, a non-profit that advocates for inclusive clean energy policies that help low-income families access cutting edge technology to sustainably reduce their energy costs.

Antionette Carroll (USA)

Social entrepreneur + designer

Designer and founder of Creative Reaction Lab, a non-profit using design to foster racially equitable communities through education and training programs, community engagement consulting and open-source tools and resources.

Mikhail Zygar (Russia)

Journalist + historian

Journalist covering contemporary and historical Russia and founder of Project1917, a digital documentary project that narrates the 1917 Russian Revolution in an effort to contextualize modern day Russian issues.

Faith Osier (Kenya | Germany)

Infectious disease doctor

Scientist studying how humans acquire immunity to malaria, translating her research into new, highly effective malaria vaccines.

Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil (Turkey | USA)

Astrophysicist

Astrophysicist studying the structure and dynamics of galaxies – including a rare double ringed elliptical galaxy she discovered – to help us understand how they form and evolve.

Kotchakorn Voraakhom (Thailand)

Urban landscape architect

Landscape architect and founder of Landprocess, a Bangkok-based design firm building public green spaces and green infrastructure to increase urban resilience and protect vulnerable communities from climate change.

Olga Iurkova (Ukraine)

Journalist + editor

Journalist and co-founder of StopFake.org, an independent Ukrainian organization that trains an international cohort of fact-checkers in an effort to curb propaganda and misinformation in the media.

Rola Hallam (Syria | UK)

Humanitarian aid entrepreneur

Medical doctor and founder of CanDo, a social enterprise and crowdfunding platform that enables local humanitarians to provide healthcare to their own war-devastated communities.

Essam Daod (Palestine | Israel)

Mental health specialist

Psychiatrist and co-founder of Humanity Crew, an NGO providing psychological aid and first response mental health interventions to refugees and displaced populations.

Adam Kucharski (UK)

Infectious disease scientist

Infectious disease scientist creating new mathematical and computational approaches to understand how epidemics like Zika and Ebola spread, and how they can be controlled.

Laura L. Dunn (USA)

Victims' rights attorney

Attorney and Founder of SurvJustice, a national nonprofit increasing the prospect of justice for survivors of campus sexual violence through effective legal assistance, policy advocacy, and institutional training.

Paul Rucker (USA)

Visual Artist + cellist

Multidisciplinary artist exploring issues related to mass incarceration, racially-motivated violence, police brutality, and the continuing impact of slavery in the US.

Lucy Marcil (USA)

Pediatrician + social entrepreneur

Pediatrician and co-founder of StreetCred, a nonprofit addressing the health impact of financial stress by providing fiscal services to low income families in the the doctor’s waiting room.

M Jackson (USA)

Geographer + glaciologist

Glaciologist researching the cultural and social impacts of climate change on communities across all eight circumpolar nations, and advocate promoting more inclusive practices in the field of glaciology.

Yasin Kakande (Uganda)

Investigative journalist + author

Journalist working undercover in the Middle East to expose the human rights abuses of migrant workers there.

Saran Kaba Jones (Liberia | USA)

Clean water advocate

Founder and CEO of FACE Africa, an NGO that strengthens clean water and sanitation infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa through innovative community support services.

Romain Lacombe (France)

Environmental entrepreneur

Founder of Plume Labs, a company dedicated to raising awareness about global air pollution by creating a personal electronic pollution tracker that forecasts air quality levels in real time.