ClarkUniversity
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Theme: Inspired by You

This event occurred on
April 11, 2015
11:00am - 7:00pm EDT
(UTC -4hrs)
Worcester, Massachusetts
United States

TEDxClarkUniversity seeks to showcase the ideas of passionate students who strive to transform their ideas into reality, engaged professors and staff who share their years of expertise and knowledge and alumni who have upheld Clark University’s motto of challenge convention, change our world to create their own opportunities to bring about change. This year’s theme will be Inspired by You because we believe in an experience where speakers, audience and organizers alike inspire each other to dream, share, learn and take action.

950 Main Street
Worcester, Massachusetts, 01610
United States
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Speakers

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Amanda Canarios

Amanda Canarios is a Sophomore at Clark University studying Geography and Latin American & Latino Studies. She is originally from Portland, Oregon but has become fond of life in New England. When she is not in class or working her campus jobs, she enjoys running, reading, talking for hours on end, and exploring the greater Worcester area. She knows she is still very young and still figuring out what it means to successfully grow up, but if there's one valuable piece of knowledge that she has learnt so far it is that growing up doesn't mean you compromise the fun and games, you use them to your advantage.

Ariel Rubin

Ariel has a strong passion for music and love for theatre. A junior at Clark University, Ariel hopes that by incorporating the mental strength she has acquired during her years practicing karate (she’s a second-degree black belt!) to her work, she will be able to change and ultimately erase the stigma around mental health issues. Ariel grew up in Montclair, NJ.

Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones

Cheyenne Wyzzard-Jones is a senior at Clark University majoring in International Development and Social Change with a minor in Women and Gender studies. Cheyenne describes herself as a Black Womanist Activist who wants to create transformative education as a tool to challenge formal and informal systems of oppression, as well as a source of empowerment for the marginalized. Cheyenne is a co-founder of Women of Color in Solidarity, a movement that brings together women of color in a counter space that allows them to heal, learn and organize.

Corey Dickinson

Corey Dickinson spent his childhood years on several Native American reservations around the southwest United States before moving to Massachusetts when he was 15. While a student at Clark University, he has become passionate about geography and about large-scale interfaces between human beings and their environment. This passion has led him to design a research project around the south pacific island nation of Nauru, where he recently traveled in order to conduct his research. This experience, among others, has helped him understand some of the widespread patterns that exist in our civilization and how these relate to individual human beings. He hopes to help make global scale issues palatable for all audiences, and in doing so work towards improving our relationship with the earth and by so doing save the world.

Florcy Romero

Florcy Romero is a senior at Clark University majoring in International Development and Social Change with a minor in Women and Gender studies. Florcy considers herself an advocate of bringing to light narratives that have been silenced by the dominant culture and believes by doing so she can provide healing and solidarity. Florcy is a co-founder of Women of Color in Solidarity, a movement that brings together women of color in a counter space that allows them to heal, learn and organize.

Ja-Nae Duane

One-woman revolution Ja-Naé Duane stormed into the limelight at age 13 as an award-winning public speaker. Since then, this renaissance woman has captured the media’s attention, appearing in The Associated Press, NPR, The Boston Globe, and Business Week through her books, research, and performing (yes, she is an opera singer). Ja-Naé spearheads a plethora of ventures as the Co-Founder of the Massachusetts Artist Leaders Coalition and Founder of The Revolution Institute, a pop-up institute focused on the intersection of creativity, entrepreneurship, innovation, and social change. Additionally, Ja-Naé is a faculty member at Northeastern University and Emerson College, and is the Lead Entrepreneur-In-Residence at Clark University. Her latest book, “The Startup Equation” is due out later in 2015 and is the first ever equation to help entrepreneurs start and grow their businesses. She is excited about creating methods that spearhead change in communities.

Jacob Steenwyk

Jacob deeply cares about self teaching; the passion to learn through experiences and reaching out for opportunities that present themselves. Born in Pasadena, CA and now attending Clark University in Worcester, MA, he has no fear to uproot himself and move to the other side of the country to experience a different lifestyle. Jacob is Biochemistry and Molecular Biology student and loves to snorkel, hike, play guitar, play bass and produce his own music.

Jaime Lara

Jaime Lara is a junior at Clark University majoring in Screen Studies and minoring in both Entrepreneurship and Management. Jaime, originally from the Philippines has lived in many places while growing up, including England and Pittsburgh, PA. Most recently he and his family moved to New Jersey in 2007. Passionate about using the creative side of entrepreneurship to elevate standards of living, Jaime is eager to go back to his roots to do just that.

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett

Jeffrey Arnett is a Research Professor of Psychology at Clark University. He is the Founding President of the Society for the Study of Emerging Adulthood (SSEA), which will hold its 7th Conference in Miami later in 2015. He is also the Author of Getting to 30: A Parent’s Guide to the Twentysomething Years and Fulbright Scholar in Denmark, 2005-06.

Jerry Maday

Jerry is the Transportation Manager at Worcester's College of the Holy Cross and "Driving Community" is his mission statement there. His role in Student Affairs allows him to passionately share his expertise in cross-sector collaboration, corporate leadership, Judeo-Christian values and music. For nearly thirty years he worked in Supply Chain logistics, Distribution and Quality Management. He is also a professional composer with a Bachelor's degree in Music Theory from the University of Wisconsin - Steven Point. He creatively uses his knowledge and experience as a springboard for all of his ideas. He believes people will succeed more consistently and help others succeed when they learn to see similarities and commonalities between varying people instead of solely recognizing differences and to drum home this belief he says, “Instead of singing "From a Distance" to see what we have in common let's sing together in four part harmony!”

Michino Hisabayashi

Michino’s conception of “home” exceeds the boundaries attached to a territory. Born in Japan, Michino has moved to different countries including Hong Kong, Bangladesh, and Thailand since age 2. Her passport might say Japan, but her heart holds many special places. A Clark University Geography major senior, Michino is interested in how GIS and other available technologies can be utilized in the field of disaster risk reduction and management.

Mohamed Ali Elmaola

Mohamed Ali Elmaola is a First Year at Clark University and an active member of the Clark University Men’s Rowing Team. He is passionate about personal relationships and yearns for everyone to choose people over technology.

Olivia Rogine

With a BA/MA in International Development and Social Change from Clark University, Olivia Rogine has an extensive background in issues of social justice, food insecurity, economics, politics, global health, and gender and race relations. Growing up in a predominantly white, affluent town in upstate New York - Olivia was not often confronted with issues of inequality. However, upon her arrival at Clark University, she became immersed in social activism. While studying abroad in South Africa, Olivia began to question her own privileges as a young white American woman on a daily basis. It was this experience that ignited her interest in race relations within different societies and the social interactions between women in particular. More recently, she became involved in various feminist and racial driven movements such as Ferguson. Her overall hope is to take a step towards uniting women of all races rather than accentuating the current division.

Rachael Shea

Rachael Shea is from Worcester, MA, as was her father and grandfather. A lady with many hats, Rachael is a librarian and an adjunct faculty in the COPACE division of Clark University. She is also a Plant Spirit Medicine practitioner, a Reiki Master and an aromatherapist. Rachel is a firm believer that if enough of us begin to shift our relationships to one another and Nature, we can produce enormous effects in sustaining our environment.

Rob Davis

Rob Davis, from Fort Worth, Texas, has been in healthcare for 17 years. He is a published author in the American Journal of Nursing with a featured article entitled "The Big Chill: Accidental Hypothermia," and is working on another called, "Off the Deep End: Decompression Sickness." Once you meet Rob, you'll immediately see, he is not your ordinary nurse, as he moonlights as a comedy magician and has studied at the world-famous McBride Mystery and Magic School under master magicians Jeff McBride and Eugene Burger. He is a regular cast member at The Open Stage cabaret show, and has competed at the Texas Association of Magicians Comedy Competition. He blends laughter and magic not only for his patients, but also in speaking to healthcare professionals with topics ranging from the philosophical to the practical.

Robert Ross

Robert J.S. "Bob" Ross is Research Professor of Sociology and the Mosakowski Institute for Public Enterprise in Clark University. The son of a teacher and a garment worker and the grandson of garment workers, Ross has cared deeply about workers and their conditions and has been learning and teaching about these matters since 1994. He is Vice-President of the Sweatfree Purchasing consortium, an organization of nineteen cities and states which are working to remove sweatshop labor from the supply chains of their public purchasing of uniforms. The author of Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops, Ross has written extensively on the global apparel industry and labor conditions and workers’ rights in it. His writings on these and other issues have appeared in variety of professional and journalistic sources.

Teja Arboleda

Teja’s father is African-American, Native-American, Filipino-Chinese, and his mother is German Danish. He grew up in Japan, and has two adopted daughters who are ethnically Chinese. His multiracial and multiethnic identity has provided the platform for him to speak at over 1,000 colleges, universities and corporations in 48 states. Teja has his Bachelor's degree in Sociology and Filmmaking from Clark University and serves as the Creative Director for Entertaining Diversity, Inc. He is the recipient of an EMMY award for Reflections with James Earl Jones. With Clark University as is his alma mater, and current workplace, he wants the Clark community to embrace the power of self-identification and move forward by setting the stage for the next generation to build a real, equitable, empathetic society.

Organizing team

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Organizer
  • Jheanell Lumsden
    Co-lead organizer
  • Pooja Patel
    Executive Producer
  • Sophia Graybill
    Co-events chair
  • WIlliam Chen
    Co-Events Chair