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Freeman Hrabowski | TED Speaker

During his 20-year tenure as president of UMBC, Freeman Hrabowski has helped students of all backgrounds pursue degrees in arts, humanities and the sciences.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/freeman_hrabowski

Jose Miguel Sokoloff | TED Speaker

Ad exec Jose Miguel Sokoloff has led a multi-year marketing campaign that's helped Colombian guerrillas realize that they are wanted back home.
Anti-guerrilla creative
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jose_miguel_sokoloff

Ludwick Marishane | TED Speaker

Student Ludwick Marishane invented a water-less bathing lotion and was named the 2011 Global Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award -- all because he didn't feel like taking baths.
Entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ludwick_marishane

Hugh Evans | TED Speaker

Through the Global Citizen platform, humanitarian Hugh Evans has created an online community of millions of people -- all driven to eradicate extreme poverty by the year 2030.
Humanitarian
https://www.ted.com/speakers/hugh_evans

Marvin Minsky | TED Speaker

Marvin Minsky is one of the great pioneers of artificial intelligence -- and using computing metaphors to understand the human mind. His contributions to mathematics, robotics and computational linguistics are legendary and far-reaching.
AI pioneer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marvin_minsky

Doris Kearns Goodwin | TED Speaker

Doris Kearns Goodwin writes insightful books on the US Presidency (JFK, LBJ, FDR and Lincoln, so far), telling each president's personal story against the backdrop of history.
Historian
https://www.ted.com/speakers/doris_kearns_goodwin

Janine di Giovanni | TED Speaker

Janine di Giovanni reports from war zones around the world.
Reporter
https://www.ted.com/speakers/janine_di_giovanni

Caroline Phillips | TED Speaker

Caroline Phillips' rich, soprano voice conjures up the far-and-wide cultures of the world, especially the sound and language of the Basque Country.
Musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/caroline_phillips

Freeman Dyson | TED Speaker

With Freeman Dyson's astonishing forecasts for the future, it was hard to tell where science ended and science fiction began. But far from being a wild-eyed visionary, Dyson was a clear and sober thinker -- and one not afraid of controversy or heresy.
Physicist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/freeman_dyson

Neil MacGregor | TED Speaker

The writer and presenter of the BBC Radio 4 series "A History of the World in 100 Objects" and the accompanying book.
Director of The British Museum
https://www.ted.com/speakers/neil_macgregor

Marcel Dicke | TED Speaker

Marcel Dicke wants us to reconsider our relationship with insects, promoting bugs as a tasty -- and ecologically sound -- alternative to meat in an increasingly hungry world.
Ecological entomologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/marcel_dicke

Rebecca Knill | TED Speaker

A writer and a part-time cyborg, Rebecca Knill embraces the humor in her bionic journey while balancing life as a deaf person with cochlear implants which enable her to hear.
Writer, business systems consultant manager
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rebecca_knill

Dave Isay | TED Speaker

Over thousands of archived and broadcast interviews, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay -- winner of the 2015 TED Prize -- has created an unprecedented document of the dreams and fears that touch us all.
Story collector
https://www.ted.com/speakers/dave_isay

Kayla Briët | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Kayla Briët explores themes of identity and self-discovery in multiple mediums of storytelling: film, multi-media arts and music.
Filmmaker, musician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kayla_briet

Jack Andraka | TED Speaker

A paper on carbon nanotubes, a biology lecture on antibodies and a flash of insight led 15-year-old Jack Andraka to design a cheaper, more sensitive cancer detector.
Cancer detector inventor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jack_andraka

Rajesh Rao | TED Speaker

Rajesh Rao seeks to understand the human brain through computational modeling, on two fronts: developing computer models of our minds, and using tech to decipher the 4,000-year-old lost script of the Indus Valley civilization.
Computational neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rajesh_rao

Chetan Bhatt | TED Speaker

Chetan Bhatt teaches and writes about the numerous dangers human rights face today from resurgent Far Right movements.
Sociologist, human rights activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/chetan_bhatt

Shigeru Ban | TED Speaker

Most people look at cardboard tubes and see something fit for the recycling bin. But architect Shigeru Ban turns them into beautiful buildings.
Architect
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shigeru_ban

Naoko Ishii | TED Speaker

Naoko Ishii leads the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a public financial institution that provides around US$1 billion every year to help tackle our planet’s most pressing environmental problems.
Environmental policy expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/naoko_ishii

Nancy Frates | TED Speaker

Nancy Frates and her family have raised a projected $160 million for ALS research in 2014. How? They kicked off the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to honor 29-year-old Pete Frates.
Mother + ALS Advocate
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_frates

Johann Hari | TED Speaker

Johann Hari is the author of two "New York Times" best-selling books.
Journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/johann_hari

Jane Fonda | TED Speaker

Jane Fonda has had four extraordinary careers (so far): Oscar-winning actor, author, fitness guru and impassioned activist.
Actor, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jane_fonda

Adrianne Haslet-Davis | TED Speaker

When Adrianne Haslet-Davis lost her left foot in the Boston Marathon bombing, her left leg was amputated to the knee. Less than a year later, she's back on her feet and dancing again.
Ballroom dancer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/adrianne_haslet_davis

Karen Lloyd | TED Speaker

Karen Lloyd investigates novel types of microbes in Earth's deep surface biosphere, collecting them from remote places such as Arctic fjords, volcanoes in Costa Rica, even deep in mud near the Marianas Trench.
Marine microbiologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/karen_lloyd

Megan McArthur | TED Speaker

Megan McArthur is a mom, explorer and NASA astronaut. She has orbited the Earth 197 times and logged more than five million miles in space, so far.
NASA astronaut
https://www.ted.com/speakers/megan_mcarthur

Garry Kasparov | TED Speaker

Garry Kasparov is esteemed by many as the greatest chess player of all time. Now he’s engaged in a game with far higher stakes: the preservation of freedom and democracy.
Grandmaster, analyst
https://www.ted.com/speakers/garry_kasparov

Kartick Satyanarayan | TED Speaker

Kartick Satyanarayan works tirelessly to save India’s wild animals from illegal captivity and poaching -- most notably rescuing hundreds of “dancing” bears.
Wildlife conservationist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kartick_satyanarayan

Loretta Napoleoni | TED Speaker

She made her name following the dollars in terrorist networks, but now Loretta Napoleoni is on the trail of something far more sinister -- the gray zone where crime and unregulated credit meet.
Macroeconomist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/loretta_napoleoni

Sam Richards | TED Speaker

Sam Richards is a sociologist and teacher of the largest race relations course in the US. He argues that empathy is the core of sociology.
Sociologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sam_richards

Heidi Boisvert | TED Speaker

Heidi Boisvert harnesses the power of popular culture, emerging technology and neuroscience to ignite culture change.
Artist and creative technologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/heidi_boisvert
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