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Nadia Lopez | TED Speaker

Nadia Lopez is the founding principal of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, where she is showing the world how underprivileged communities can beat the odds and create positive institutions that have a global impact.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nadia_lopez

Anant Agarwal | TED Speaker

Through blended courses Anant Agarwal is pairing online education with face-to-face student-faculty interactions, reshaping the university campus experience.
Education innovator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/anant_agarwal

Stuart Firestein | TED Speaker

Stuart Firestein teaches students and “citizen scientists” that ignorance is far more important to discovery than knowledge.
Neuroscientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/stuart_firestein

Rita F. Pierson | TED Speaker

Rita F. Pierson spent her entire life in or around the classroom, having followed both her parents and grandparents into a career as an educator.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/rita_f_pierson

Kandice Sumner | TED Speaker

Kandice Sumner thinks we've been looking at the "achievement gap" in education all wrong.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kandace_sumner

Diane Wolk-Rogers | TED Speaker

Diane Wolk-Rogers has been a Florida public school teacher for more than three decades.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/diane_wolk_rogers

Tyler DeWitt | TED Speaker

Tyler DeWitt recognizes that textbooks are not the way to get young people interested in science. Instead, he teaches science by making it fun and fantastical.
Technology-driven science educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/tyler_dewitt

Ramsey Musallam | TED Speaker

As a high school chemistry teacher, Ramsey Musallam expands curiosity in the classroom through multimedia and new technology.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ramsey_musallam

Sara DeWitt | TED Speaker

Inspired by Mister Rogers, Sara DeWitt strives to make every child feel special by charting the forefront of new digital mediums where kids spend their time.
Children’s media expert
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sara_dewitt

Ayah Bdeir | TED Speaker

Ayah Bdeir is an engineer and artist, and is the founder of littleBits and karaj, an experimental art, architecture and technology lab in Beirut.
Engineer and artist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ayah_bdeir

Pearl Arredondo | TED Speaker

Pearl Arredondo helped establish a pilot middle school that teaches students to be good communicators in the 21st century.
Teacher
https://www.ted.com/speakers/pearl_arredondo

Ben Ambridge | TED Speaker

Ben Ambridge is the author of "Psy-Q," a sparkling book debunking what we think we know about psychology.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ben_ambridge

Kakenya Ntaiya | TED Speaker

Dr. Kakenya Ntaiya is the founder and president of Kakenya's Dream, an international nonprofit organization leveraging education to empower girls, end harmful traditional practices and transform communities in rural Kenya.
Educator, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kakenya_ntaiya

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón | TED Speaker

Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón links science with humor and stories.
Math educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/eduardo_saenz_de_cabezon

Peggy Orenstein | TED Speaker

In her groundbreaking book Girls & Sex, Peggy Orenstein explores the changing landscape of modern sexual expectations and its troubling impact on adolescents and young women.
Journalist, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peggy_orenstein

ShaoLan Hsueh | TED Speaker

ShaoLan want to help people understand China's culture and language, and to bridge the gap between East and West.
Technologist, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shaolan_hsueh

Daphne Koller | TED Speaker

With Coursera, Daphne Koller and co-founder Andrew Ng are bringing courses from top colleges online, free, for anyone who wants to take them.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/daphne_koller

Suki Kim | TED Speaker

Suki Kim's investigation, "Without You, There Is No Us: My Time with the Sons of North Korea's Elite," chronicles her six months undercover in Pyongyang during Kim Jong-Il's final six months. She worked as a teacher and a missionary in a university for future leaders -- all while writing her book.
Writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/suki_kim

Ziauddin Yousafzai | TED Speaker

Despite an attack on his daughter Malala in 2012, Ziauddin Yousafzai continues his fight to educate children in the developing world.
Education activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/ziauddin_yousafzai

Aleph Molinari | TED Speaker

Through education and technology-focused community centers, Aleph Molinari empowers the 5 billion people who cannot access or use the Internet and other technologies.
Economist, techno-activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/aleph_molinari

Shai Reshef | TED Speaker

Shai Reshef wants to democratize higher education.
Education entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/shai_reshef

Erin McKean | TED Speaker

As the co-founder of Reverb Technologies, the maker of the online dictionary Wordnik, Erin McKean is reshaping how we interact with language itself.
Dictionary editor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/erin_mckean

Taylor Mali | TED Speaker

Taylor Mali is one of the most well-known poets to have emerged from the poetry slam movement and one of the few people in the world to have no job other than that of poet.
Slam poet
https://www.ted.com/speakers/taylor_mali

Angela Lee Duckworth | TED Speaker

At the University of Pennsylvania, Angela Lee Duckworth studies intangible concepts such as self-control and grit to determine how they might predict both academic and professional success.
Psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/angela_lee_duckworth

Sakena Yacoobi | TED Speaker

At the Afghan Institute of Learning, Sakena Yacoobi provides teacher training to Afghan women, supporting education for girls and boys throughout the country.
Education activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sakena_yacoobi

Peter Doolittle | TED Speaker

Peter Doolittle is striving to understand the processes of human learning.
Educational psychology professor
https://www.ted.com/speakers/peter_doolittle

Adora Svitak | TED Speaker

A prolific short story writer and blogger since age seven, Adora Svitak (now 12) speaks around the United States to adults and children as an advocate for literacy.
Child prodigy
https://www.ted.com/speakers/adora_svitak

Diana Laufenberg | TED Speaker

For over 15 years Diana has been a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania.
Educator
https://www.ted.com/speakers/diana_laufenberg

Thomas Suarez | TED Speaker

Thomas Suarez, a 12 year old, taught himself to build iphone apps.
Developer, 12 year old
https://www.ted.com/speakers/thomas_suarez

Sal Khan | TED Speaker

In 2004, Sal Khan, a hedge fund analyst, began making math tutorials for his cousins. Twelve years later, Khan Academy has more than 42 million registered users from 190 countries, with tutorials on subjects from basic math through economics, art history, computer science, health, medicine and more.
Educator and social entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/salman_khan
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