Theme: RAW Subjects, REAL Women, RELEVANT Stories

This intimate, edgy, and explosively powerful Independently Operated TED event will cover topics that aren’t discussed openly and bridge the generation gap.
Focused on Local speakers and issues relevant to Women this TEDxCrestmoorParkWomen event will bring together thought leaders and powerful presenters with ideas worth spreading around Raw, Real, and Relevant issues.

The Cable Center
2000 Buchtel Blvd S
Denver, Colorado, 80210
United States

GG Johnston and Gregor Owens

Separately, GG and Gregor think differently; but together, they navigate the same path, advocating for each other. Their differences make them a strong, loving and sometimes feisty team. GG Johnston is a leadership development and organizational health expert who utilizes those skills to advocate for her son, Gregor, on his journey as a teenager with learning differences and a unique way of seeing the world. Gregor Owens is twice-exceptional and is learning to be a champion for himself on his educational journey.

Bernadette Slowey

As the founder of Vast Universe Productions, Bernadette Slowey directed, produced, co-wrote and starred in the award-winning feature length documentary Berni’s Journey. Through serendipity, the film unexpectedly follows her personal transformation while she travels with spiritual teachers through India on a quest to make a movie about difficult transitions. She shares her stories as a refugee from the Vietnam War and as a former corporate executive turned filmmaker.

Christy Belz

Christy's passion lives in the empowerment of you, both personally and professionally. She is gifted at seeing you as a whole person, discerning, uncovering and helping to resolve the underlying issues that can keep you stuck. Her own varied life events, her many years as a spiritual seeker, and her distinctive blend of non-profit, sales, marketing and leadership expertise have given Christy a unique opportunity to see a broad scope of human experiences and transformations and a special ability to powerfully support you in your own situations.

Denise Soler Cox

Denise is a sought after speaker on the subject of identity, an entrepreneur, and an experienced internet marketer. She has built and managed large direct marketing sales teams, and led the sponsorship departments for House of Blues and high visibility Denver-based sporting events. She has been passionate about sharing (ñ) Stories and bringing the concept of (ñ) into the mainstream American consciousness since she first realized she was an (ñ) in her mid-twenties. In addition to her work on the film, Soler Cox is a regular blog contributor to Huffington Post Latino and a syndicated content provider for AOL.com. She has been featured on a diverse array of media including CNN Money, NBC News, Fox News Latino and Telemundo.

Ella Maria Ray

Dr. Ray’s ceramic sculpture emerges from a commitment to acknowledge the ways in which continental and diasporic Africans share cultural commonalties, while simultaneously expressing cultural distinctions. As an anthropologist and visual artist, she strives to understand the complex vision diasporic Africans are creating for themselves and for all of humanity as we walk further into the twenty first century.

Gretchen Gagel

Gretchen is a recognized expert in the construction industry, and works in partnership with her clients to determine strategies for more closely aligning the value chain to reduce construction costs and schedules, and improve profitability. Her passion lies in how leaders create agile organizations capable of swiftly and successfully implementing change in reaction to shifts in the external environment.

Jamie Sarche

Notorious tough-talker, Jamie Sarche, works hard to get people to put plans in place long before they need them. As the director of prearranged funeral planning, she helps them make educated decisions that are not clouded by grief. Her clients often say the process was much less difficult than they expected and that they feel a sense of peace for having taken care of it.

Julie Geller

Julie Geller delivers her lyric-driven songs with honesty, clarity, and most of all, hope. The veins that run through Julie’s music are connection and courage. Connection, because her music makes us feel both a part of something greater and more in touch with our deepest selves. Courage, because her lyrics are about the struggle to develop into the people we know we can be. If music is the heart of what Julie does, then storytelling is the soul. This comes across in her lyrics, live shows, and blog. By telling the stories of her own life - her successes and failures - as well as the stories behind her songs, there is a recognition of our shared humanity.

Krystal Covington

Krystal Covington is a public relations director, branding expert and a master of the art of social influence. As a marketer, Krystal has led the launch of multi-million dollar products, worked directly with CEO’s of small and large businesses and produced videos with fortune 500 executives. Krystal is also the CEO & Founder of Women of Denver, a flourishing community dedicated to helping women build influence as a credible expert in their field of business, so they can gain more opportunities, make a bigger impact, and get paid what they're worth.

Lisa Foster

List Foster has committed herself to transforming the national conversation about sexual violation from one of shame and silence to one of heroism and fierce hope. A freedom facilitator and the founder of parillume, Lisa empowers victims of sexual violation to continue past the survivor stage and heroically reclaim the treasure of their true selves, shining in the world without shame.

Meghan French Dunbar Maren Keeley

Meghan French Dunbar is Co-founder and Co-CEO of Conscious Company, which is the first multimedia organization in the country that specifically focuses on purpose-driven capitalism. Maren Keeley’s experience spans multiple industries. She brings her systems thinking, art, and design background to Conscious Company with creativity, hard work, and grit.

Phoenix Jackson

Phoenix Jackson has experienced some of the same pains and dark challenges that many women have faced (abuse, divorce, etc) and has worked to maneuver through and around these traumas to better herself and use the lessons to aid others. She has public speaking and journalistic skills, but most of all she is a spiritivational speaker. Any and everything she does is with the intention of bringing a level of enlightenment to her generation

Shari Zabel

Shari is a combat fighter weapons officer. She served in the Air Force for 20 years before retiring. After retiring from civil service Shari came to a point in her life that changed everything. She began her transgender transition. Knowing her identity was not acceptable she kept it secret until she could no longer accept the damage that secret was causing in her life. She embraced who she is and became a social, legislative, and political activist.