Theme: It's About Time

Time is personal. We all have the same amount of time — 24 hours a day and yet most of us feel we never have enough. Even with today’s latest inventions, technology, science, we can’t make time or stop time — or can we?

Come explore time zones, time travel, time outs and times together. We will explore the conventions and challenges of time, with a special focus on exploring time through the lenses of life, work, culture, art, and innovation.

For detailed information visit our website at http://www.TEDxWinstonSalemWomen.com

Elberson Fine Arts Center
Salem College
500 E. Salem Ave.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27101
United States

Alyson Francisco

Alyson Francisco is the Mary Ardrey Stough Kimbrough Chair in Business and Economics at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a full time faculty member, she teaches finance, entrepreneurship and business planning. She also serves as the Director of the College’s Center for Women in Business where she focuses on linking Salem to the external professional community through providing relevant business programming, creating networking forums, and helping students secure mentoring opportunities, internships and job placements.

Ana Leon-Tavora

Dr. Ana León-Távora is an assistant professor of Spanish at Salem College and Chair of the Department of Modern Languages. She has published several articles and book chapters on different narrative techniques, on the influence of 20th century scientific discoveries on time-bending narrative structures, and on new library models in the digital world, among other topics. She also loves to teach courses on literature and popular culture, and has recently presented a paper at the University of Oxford about the Spanish economic crisis seen through literature and the current media.

Ana Tampanna

Ana Tampanna is a professional author, speaker, and certified leadership coach who is a stand for leaders with purpose, heart, and possibility. She is certified by the International Academy of Coaches, received her Masters of Fine Arts from Florida State University, is a past member of the National Speakers Association and is a Distinguished Toastmaster with Toastmasters International. She is the author of The Womanly Art of Alligator Westling and lives in Winston-Salem with her husband, Robert Reister.

Angela Wilder

Angela Wilder is a native of Winston-Salem, NC and a graduate of The University of North Carolina with a B.A. in Speech Communications. She has a Masters Degree in Clinical Psychology. She is insatiably curious about life in general but about people in particular. In 2004, Angela became a published author. My book, Powerful Mate Syndrome, essentially explores the balance of power in relationships. She has extensive experience in television with guest appearances on 48 Hours, HBO's Real Sports, The Oprah Winfrey Show, and several other shows usually giving her opinion on current events in the "off the field" lives of professional athletes.

Barbara Lister-Sink

Dr. Barbara Lister-Sink, internationally acclaimed pianist and teacher, holds a BA from Smith College, a Soloist Diploma and Prix d’Excellence from the Utrecht Conservatory, and an Ed.D. from Columbia University. A former member of the Artist Faculty of the Eastman School of Music, she has collaborated with some of the world’s most renowned performers, composers, and in numerous music festivals. Lister-Sink is acknowledged as a global leader in injury-preventive keyboard technique. Her video/DVD Freeing the Caged Bird
– Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique won the distinguished 2002 Music Teachers National Association-Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award and was praised as “A monumental work!” by pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Carol Andrews

Due largely to her daily presence in living rooms for over 20 years as a TV news anchor, Carol has gained the trust and respect of her community. She now offers her knowledge and experience as tools to help develop the initiatives of fellow leaders and visionaries.

Catherine Cross

Catherine Cross Tsintzos, is an interdisciplinary artist who has a clear purpose in building and crossing bridges among the arts. She has a deep focus and balance between artistic practice, teaching, activism and invitation of participation.

Doria Kathleen Stitts

Doria Kathleen Stitts is an associate provost and dean in the higher educational system. She has a passion for serving her community and for living authentically.

Elizabeth Jeter

Dr. Elizabeth Jeter is an Assistant Professor of Human Relations at High Point University. Her research focuses on communication, inter-organizational collaboration, organizational change, and the criminal justice system.

J. Matthew Williams

When asked what it means to be a woman, Matthew freely admits, “I have no idea.” However, largely through his efforts as a diversity and inclusion advocate, that doesn’t stop him from working to build a community that respects and offers opportunity for all its citizens.

Jen Arnold

Jen Arnold’s a recovering people pleaser who’s on a mission to change the common approach to employee health. To do this, she recently ditched her corporate job to start her own business and podcast, named Redesigning Wellness. For the 13 years prior to starting her own business, Jen led organizational health and wellness efforts and advised employers how to start them. Most recently, she worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC leading a team of health promotion professionals. Jen lives in Raleigh, NC with her husband, son and dog.

Jen Brown Oleniczak

Jen Brown Oleniczak has mastered the craft of flowing through life with grace and good humor. Her pedagogical approach of improv as Continuing Education has reached thousands of people with the awesomeness that is improv. She has the uncanny ability to guide one to process and heal through life’s tragedies whilst skipping down the path and laughing hysterically.

Jill Green

Fluid motion, awesome power, unfailing strength, and delicate steps; elements of choreography for the dance of life. Jill is an accomplished performance artist and instructor of the arts. She conducts research, and teaches somatics, body theory and practice, and dance pedagogy.

Katharine Blackwell

Katharine Blackwell has been an Assistant Professor of Psychology at Salem College since 2013 and teaches courses on cognitive and developmental psychology. Her research explores how children learn to hold ideas in memory, stop themselves from doing things they’ve been told not to do, and combine these skills to tell successful lies.

Lisa Delise

Dr. Lisa Delise is an assistant professor in the Department of Business Administration at Salem College. Her research interests include cognition and processes in teams. Her pedagogy interests include training individuals in becoming better team members, increasing the understanding of interpersonal behavior, and enhancing the ability to apply course topics through critical thinking.

Mary Jamis

Mary Jamis is the President of Winston-Salem strategic communications firm, M Creative and one of the five founding members of The Women’s Fund of Winston-Salem, a philanthropic community of over 800 female philanthropists who provide grants to local programs and initiatives that address the root causes of social issues impacting women and girls in Forsyth County. She has also been involved in local and statewide efforts around LGBTQ issues, including marriage equality and most recently, HB2. Mary is an undergraduate of Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio and has her Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology from Kent State University. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Wake Forest University teaching Buyer Behavior to undergraduate and MBA level students. Mary is a native of Pittsburgh, PA.

Mary Elaine Jacobsen

Some people are gifted with insight of realizing potential by sensing and observing, and then are able to teach others how to develop their own path to greatness. As is Mary’s work, dedicated to the advancement of high-potential in the workplace and effective talent management. Her research centers on creative intelligence and efforts to remove barriers that impede innovation, especially for women.

Megan Regan

Dr. Megan Regan has worked directly with small and large businesses and securing grant funding and micro-loans for entrepreneurs in rural settings such as Gujarat, India, and Puerto Cabezas, Nicaragua. She believes that it is important for everyone to have a basic understanding of economics.

Michelle Leeper-Ward

While finishing her undergraduate degree, Michelle Leeper-Ward realized that the impostor phenomenon was a struggle for her. It wasn't until finishing her graduate work and writing papers about it that she realized how common the impostor phenomenon actually was. Ward attended undergraduate school at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia where she studied Psychology and Criminal Justice. She completed her Masters degree in Educational Leadership at Valdosta State University in Valdosta, Georgia.

Pauls Wilkins

As an educator and academic systems administrator, Dr. Paula Wilkins has dedicated her life’s work to teaching others how to succeed. She demonstrates a keen insight for potential greatness and does well to help position those around her to achieve their dreams.

Randi Byrd

Randi R. Byrd is the Community Engagement Coordinator for the American Indian Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Byrd works closely with American Indian communities in North Carolina around health and wellness through a holistic community lens, community grassroots organizing that values indigenous ways of knowing and practices, facilitating and promoting tribally-vetted and culturally appropriate curricula on NC American Indians.

Shaun Stripling

As a leading brand builder and advertising strategist, Shaun has developed an insatiable curiosity that fuels her desire to dissect and understand. She sees challenges as an opportunity to explore the human condition, ask smarter questions, and sometimes, just listen.

Shawn Arango Ricks

Dr. Shawn Arango Ricks is an Associate Professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Old Dominion University (ODU). In addition to her academic appointment, Dr. Ricks is a licensed mental health and addictions counselor practicing in Winston-Salem, NC, and specializing in the mental health needs of women. Her research interests include the psycho-social well-being of Black women (both inside and outside of the academy), as well as the challenges of raising Black children in “post-racial” America.

Shayla Herndon-Edmunds

Shayla Herndon-Edmunds is the Director of Diversity Education in the Wake Forest University Office of Diversity & Inclusion where she is responsible for programs and initiatives that will elevate cultural competence for faculty, staff, and students. She is also the Founder and Chief Creator of Oh My Goodness Herbal Bar, an online gift shop that offers a line of herbal and aromatherapy products.

Silvia Ramos

Silvia Ramos has been a voice for diversity in higher education for fifteen years and believes in the engagement of the community is a key component to diversity.

Sonja Sepulveda

Dr. Sonja Sepúlveda is the Director of Choral Activities and teacher of Theory at Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and conducts the Salem College Chamber Choir, Chorale, and SuperTonix. Dr. Sepulveda has watched the struggle of women conductors for the last 30 years in America.

Sydney D. Richardson

For many women, returning to the classroom as mature adults can be a terrifying experience. Dr. Sydney D. Richardson has devoted her career to smoothing and calming this transition, and influencing students to rise to the highest and best vision of themselves. Her research and interests focus on women using resilience to persist in higher education.

Teri Hairston

Teri Hairston is an award-winning published poet and fiction writer whose writing accomplishments include the 2005 Salem College Rondthaler Award.