Theme: Connections

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (subject to certain rules and regulations).

Online
https://bit.ly/connections2020x
Providence, Rhode Island, 02912
United States

Amiri Nash

Amiri Nash is an 18-year-old activist, writer, and artist from Washington, D.C. He is the Co-Founder of the Sign of Justice project, and he aims to reshape America's narrative to create a more inclusive environment for all citizens. He is a member of Brown University Class of 2024.

Anthony DeRita

Anthony is a writer, producer, and performer from New Jersey. He graduated from Brown in 2018 with a dual-degree in Theatre Arts and Economics—two ways of looking at “how people act.” His interest in drag began during his first year at Brown, and has been the running thread through much of his work and life since. He loves the beach, and just loves having a good time in general.

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan

Banu Ozkazanc-Pan, Ph.D. is Professor of Practice at Brown University's School of Engineering and School of Professional Studies. She is the Founder and Director of the Venture Capital Inclusion Lab at the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. Her research interests include leading for diversity and inclusion in organizations and examining the Future of Work and its impact on different people, organizations and societies. Recently, she was asked to testify at the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship to speak about the importance of women and minority investors and entrepreneurs.

Cliff Weitzman

Cliff Weitzman has been dyslexic his entire life. He couldn't read in 3rd grade. At Brown, he Studied Renewable Energy Engineering, built 36 products outside of class, and created Speechify- an App that will read the internet to you. Speechify started as a tool to help students with neurodiversity like Dyslexia & ADD, and is now used by millions of professionals and students to read billions of words every month. Speechify the #1 app in its category above the NYT and WSJ.

Eddie DeHais

Eddie DeHais (they/them) is a nonbinary director, choreographer, writer, and visual artist, who creates a space of rigorous collaboration, radical empathy, and unguarded joy to investigate the best and worst of humanity. They craft transformational, sensorial experiences that empower people to form community through deep, viscerally tender bonds.

Emily Wanderer

Emily is a recent MSc graduate of Brown’s Integrative Studies program studying the intersection of business and sociological inequity. She works with start-ups and corporations to use technology for social change and racial equity efforts.

Michael Littman

Michael Littman is a professor of computer science, who studies artificial intelligence and how to build machines that can learn from us using various types of feedback including rewards, punishments, and examples.