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Theme: Values, Voice, Vision

This event occurred on
October 17, 2014
9:00am - 5:00pm EDT
(UTC -4hrs)
Cleveland, Ohio
United States

Please see: http://tedxursuinecollege.com for additional information, a list of speakers, and to purchase tickets.

In the spirit of “ideas worth spreading,” TEDxUrsulineCollege will host a diverse range of talks that incorporate the Ursuline mantra “Values, Voice, Vision.” Speakers will connect the mission and vision of Ursuline College with the Global Community and this event will encourage dialogue around personal values, character building, and the ability to make change. In collaboration with TEDx, Ursuline College is honored to present this opportunity to encourage individuals to find their voices and recognize the impact they can make in a global community.

Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)
11400 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio, 44106
United States
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Speakers

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Carl Wilkens

Carl Wilkens moved his young family to Rwanda in the spring of 1990 serving as a humanitarian aid worker. When the genocide was launched in April 1994, Carl refused to leave and was the only American to remain in the country. Venturing out each day into streets crackling with mortars and gunfire, he worked his way through roadblocks of angry, bloodstained soldiers and civilians armed with machetes and assault rifles in order to bring food, water and medicine to groups of orphans trapped around the city. His actions saved the lives of hundreds. In January 2008, with no end in sight to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan, Carl decided to quit his job and dedicate himself full time to accepting these invitations. He and his wife Teresa have since formed an educational nonprofit, World Outside My Shoes, to facilitate this important work.

Dianne Callister

Dianne Callister was honored as the 75th National Mother of the Year in 2010 by American Mothers, Inc. and currently serves as the President and UN Representative for the organization. She believes strongly in giving back to her community and improving lives through creating opportunity. Dianne has served on numerous boards and consulted with schools, organizations and government leaders across the nation. She founded Project Give, a student-driven service project for middle schools across the country empowering students to become actively involved in identifying and solving problems in their local communities.

George Matejka

Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Ursuline College. He has a strong interest in the ethical dimension of human relationships with animals and has lectured at the National Animal Rights Conference several times. He has published reviews of several books in the fields of Ethics and Theology. George has lectured at conferences at Oxford University, England, as well as at Yale University and Michigan State University. He serves as the Board President for the Cleveland Ecumenical Institute.

Gretchen Miller

GRETCHEN MILLER MA, ATR-BC, ACTP is a Cleveland area Registered Board Certified Art Therapist and Trauma Practitioner. She is also an Adjunct Professor in Ursuline College’s Counseling and Art Therapy Department, Past President of Ohio’s Buckeye Art Therapy Association, and Founder of the online communities Art Therapy Alliance and 6 Degrees of Creativity. Over the last 15 years, Gretchen has had a commitment in activating digital platforms for community organizing and networking. This has included leveraging social media and online tools for the art therapy professional community, as well as for art-based engagement and connection.

Joan Wages

President & Chief Executive Officer of the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM). She is dedicated to educating the general public about the central, indispensable role women have played throughout our nation’s history and raising awareness about the critical need for a national women’s history museum in our nation’s capital. As one of NWHM’s founding board members, Joan has been a passionate and tireless champion of this effort for nearly 20 years. As a registered lobbyist, she worked with legislators and women’s organizations to effect positive change on a host of issues. It was therefore no surprise when she teamed with a small group of women to advocate for the transfer of The Portrait Monument from the Capitol Crypt to the Rotunda, where it stands today. As a result of her efforts on behalf of the Museum, Joan was honored by Lifetime Television as part of its Remarkable Women series.

Linda Spurlock

An Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Kent State University, where she teaches courses in biological anthropology, forensic anthropology and archaeology. She has had an extensive career as a teacher of anatomy and physiology in colleges and universities throughout northern Ohio. She received her Ph.D. in biomedical science from Kent State and held a post-doctoral position in the Department of Anatomy at NEOMED, where she refined techniques of forensic facial reconstruction. She isa forensic facial reconstruction artist and provides sketches of unidentified persons for Medical Examiner’s and Coroner’s offices throughout the region. She is also a scientific illustrator who specializes in primate fossil reconstruction and has recently worked on reconstructing the fossil Ardipithecus ramidus pelvis. In 2006 she co-edited Caves and Culture: 10,000 Years of History in Ohio, Kent State University Press.

Marianela Medrano

DR. Marianela Medrano was born and raised in the Dominican Republic, and has lived in Connecticut since 1990. A poet and a writer of nonfiction and fiction, she holds a PhD in psychology. Medrano is Vice President of Grace Works International, a charitable foundation involved in outreach in the developing world. Her literary work has appeared in numerous anthologies and magazines in Latin America, Europe and the United States. Medrano is also a regular blogger for the American Counseling Association (ACA).

Melissa Hladek

Counseling and Art Therapy Graduate student at Ursuline College. She has been instrumental in the Service learning projects at Ursuline College and recently completed trips to Quito Ecuador, Bulawayo Zimbabwe, and Eagle Butte South Dakota. Her research focuses on Post-traumatic Growth and better understanding of visual, emotional, and epigenetic patterns as contributing factors to recovery from physical and sexual abuse. Melissa currently interns at The Centers for Family and Children, a community mental health agency, providing counseling and art therapy services to children, adolescents, and adults. She is also an art teacher at Ruffing Montessori School teaching grade levels 3 through 8.

Nurete Benner

Executive Director of the Business programs at Ursuline College. She previously taught Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University and at the Interdisciplinary College in Herzliya Israel. Nurete’s research has focused on intercultural dialogue, Arab-Jewish dialogue and grassroots movements, and her interests center on how to create socially-conscious businesses. Nurete has authored articles on the subject of dialogue, challenging conversations and how to resolve conflicts in various settings. Nurete holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University, an MBA, an MA in English Literature from Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and a BA in English and Middle East history from Bar Ilan University in Israel. She is also the mother of two boys who teach her on a daily basis the importance of dialogue and the art of challenging conversations.

Roxanne Sukol

Medical Director of The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Enterprise, and sees patients in the Department of Preventive Medicine. Special interests in health literacy and patient-provider communication give her a unique ability to make complex medical information easier for everyone to understand. Dr. Sukol authors the blog Your Health is on Your Plate, with more than 20 million hits. Her essays have been published in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Wall Street Journal Online, KevinMD.com, Human Pathology, and the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is author of the first-ever nutrition section to appear in Cleveland Clinic’s Current Clinical Medicine, a 2nd place winner of the 2008 Award for Creative Nonfiction at Baltimore Review, and a 1995 winner of the John Conley Foundation Essay Competition for Ethics and Philosophy in Medicine.

Stacy Blake Beard

DR. Stacy Blake Beard is a Professor of Management at the Simmons College School of Management where she teaches organizational behavior. She is also Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons and Visiting Faculty at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. Prior to joining Simmons, Dr. Blake-Beard was faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. Dr. Blake-Beard’s research focuses on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on how these relationships may be changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. She is particularly interested in the issues women face as they develop mentoring relationships. She also studies the dynamics of formal mentoring programs in both corporate and educational settings. Dr. Blake-Beard has published research on gender, diversity, and mentoring in several publications and is co-editor of the Handbook of Research on Promoting Women’s Careers (2013).

Organizing team

  • Brittney Edelman
    Event Organizer and Marketing Specialist