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Brenda Romero | TED Speaker

Brenda Romero designs games that turn some of history's most tragic lessons into interactive, emotional experiences.
Game designer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/brenda_brathwaite

Jennifer L. Eberhardt | TED Speaker

A social psychologist at Stanford University, Jennifer L. Eberhardt conducts research on race and inequality.
Professor, author
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jennifer_eberhardt

Playlist: Photojournalism -- close up and personal (16 talks)

These photographers capture beautiful and sometimes sobering images, using their art to help fight for social justice.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/close_up_and_personal

Playlist: TED MacArthur Grant winners (16 talks)

A collection of talks from creative individuals striving to bring light to some of the world's most pressing issues.
Curated by TED · 16 talks
http://www.ted.com/playlists/ted_macarthur_grant_winners

The damaging effects of inequality

"If there is this big difference, with some people worth everything and other people worth nothing, where do you come?" So asks Richard Wilkinson in the trailer for the forthcoming documentary based on his influential book The Spirit Level. Wilkinson, an epidemiologist, spent his career examining health issues caused or worsened by poverty and i...
Posted June 28, 2013
https://ideas.ted.com/since-the-ted-talk-an-update-from-richard-wilkinson

Candis Watts Smith | TED Speaker

Candis Smith is on a mission to eliminate outdated, inaccurate commonsense ideas about inequality.
Political scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/candis_watts_smith

Paul Piff | TED Speaker

Paul Piff studies how social hierarchy, inequality and emotion shape relations between individuals and groups.
Social psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/paul_piff

Gautam Bhan | TED Speaker

Gautam Bhan studies how cities produce and reproduce poverty and inequality.
Urbanist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/gautam_bhan

David Autor | TED Speaker

David Autor's work assesses the labor market consequences of technological change and globalization.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/david_autor

Allyson Felix | TED Speaker

The most decorated track and field Olympian in history, Allyson Felix is now taking her talents to the business world.
Olympian, entrepreneur
https://www.ted.com/speakers/allyson_felix

William "Sandy" Darity | TED Speaker

William A. "Sandy" Darity Jr. is the Samuel DuBois Cook Professor of Public Policy, African and African American Studies and Economics and the director of the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University.
Economist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/william_sandy_darity

Why is inequality the big hot issue right now?

Writer Jimmy Guterman takes society's temperature and digs into the reasons we're all talking about inequality. Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century is a book of our moment. It may be the most unlikely egghead highbrow bestseller since A Brief History of Time – and it’s a lot longer than Stephen Hawking’s slender guide. Piketty’s 577-...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/why-is-inequality-the-big-hot-issue-right-now

Jenna C. Lester | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Jenna C. Lester is working to fix dermatology's problem with skin color.
Dermatologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/jenna_c_lester

Nancy N. Chen | TED Speaker

Engaging scientific knowledge, Nancy N. Chen examines the intersections of medicine, political economy and social inequality.
Medical anthropologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/nancy_chen

Gallery: What inequality looks like

Inequality is a complicated term. It can be applied to so many factors, for one thing. There's income inequality, asset inequality, gender inequality, social, class, political ... you name it, someone, somewhere likely feels (and is) hard done by. And, for all the focus that Thomas Piketty has gained for his analysis of a new, ever-diverging glo...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/gallery-what-inequality-looks-like

Abigail Disney | TED Speaker

Abigail Disney advocates for real changes to the way capitalism operates in today's world.
Filmmaker, activist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/abigail_e_disney

Kimberly Noble | TED Speaker

Kimberly Noble, MD, PhD, studies how socioeconomic inequality relates to children's cognitive and brain development.
Neuroscientist, pediatrician
https://www.ted.com/speakers/kimberly_noble

Sonia Shah | TED Speaker

Science historian Sonia Shah explores the surprisingly fascinating story behind an ancient scourge: malaria.
Science writer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sonia_shah

Cathy O'Neil | TED Speaker

Data skeptic Cathy O’Neil uncovers the dark secrets of big data, showing how our "objective" algorithms could in fact reinforce human bias.
Mathematician, data scientist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/cathy_o_neil

Sarah Kurnick | TED Speaker

Sarah Kurnick specializes in the ancient Maya and her research focuses on the creation, perpetuation and negation of inequality.
Archaeologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_kurnick

Playlist: The roots -- and effects -- of income inequality

Explore these TEDTalks that discuss income inequality -- what causes it, the brutal effects, and how we might fight it. Start with this talk from Richard Wilkinson, whose 2009 book The Spirit Level gathers decades of research to draw this conclusion: Societies with more income inequality suffer -- in utterly predictable ways -- more than soci...
Posted May 17, 2012
https://blog.ted.com/2012/05/17/playlist-the-roots-and-effects-of-income-equality

Danny Dorling | TED Speaker

Danny Dorling teaches and writes about the geography of our human world.
Social geographer
https://www.ted.com/speakers/danny_dorling

Sarah Jones | TED Speaker

Tony Award-winning monologist, UNICEF ambassador, firebrand and FCC-fighting poet -- Sarah Jones assumes as many roles offstage as on.
Polymorphic playwright
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sarah_jones

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy | TED Speaker

TED Fellow Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy seeks to push people to have difficult conversations about inequality and injustice.
Director, journalist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/sharmeen_obaid_chinoy

The 4 biggest reasons why inequality is bad for society

It's safe to say that economic inequality bothers us. But why? Harvard philosopher T. M. Scanlon offers four reasons we should tackle -- and fix -- the problem. The great inequality of income and wealth in the world, and within the United States, is deeply troubling. It seems, even to many of us who benefit from this inequality, that somethin...
Posted June 3, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/the-4-biggest-reasons-why-inequality-is-bad-for-society

Hamdi Ulukaya | TED Speaker

Hamdi Ulukaya is a pioneer of the natural food movement and the founder of Chobani, one of the fastest-growing food companies of the last decade.
Yogurt maker, humanitarian
https://www.ted.com/speakers/hamdi_ulukaya

What does inequality do to our bodies and minds? A social psychologist and an epidemiologist discuss

What do a disease-fighting epidemiologist (retired) and an up-and-coming social psychologist have in common? They're both fascinated by the unseen social problems hidden behind the word "inequality."  Beyond the lack of access to money and power -- what does inequality do to us as human beings? Epidemiologist Richard Wilkinson (TED Talk: ...
Posted August 6, 2014
https://ideas.ted.com/what-does-inequality-do-to-our-bodies-and-minds-a-social-psychologist-and-an-epidemiologist-discuss

The data shows we want to end inequality. Here's how to start ...

Rich and poor, left and right, we all agree the world should be more equal. Dan Ariely and Michael Norton have spent the past decade analyzing the data. Now, they tackle what to do next. Picture three people splitting an 8-piece pizza. How should they divide it? The possibilities are endless, from the very unequitable -- one person eats the who...
Posted April 30, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/the-data-shows-we-want-to-end-inequality-heres-how-to-start

Deepa Narayan | TED Speaker

Deepa Narayan is an international advisor on poverty, gender and development with more than 25 years of experience working at the World Bank, the UN and NGOs.
Social psychologist
https://www.ted.com/speakers/deepa_narayan

What toothbrushes tell us about inequality

Anna Rosling-Rönnlund collects photographs of everyday objects from the richest to the poorest households. Even a toothbrush, she says, can reveal a world of inequalities. Imagine if the world lived along a single street, with the richest households on one end, the poorest on the other -- and every door flung open to the public. That’s the visi...
Posted December 2, 2015
https://ideas.ted.com/what-our-toothbrushes-tell-us-about-inequality
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