Theme: The Genius of the Crowd

Scheduled for 15 May 2021, TEDxPCC is an independently organized TED event hosted by the Pasadena City College student body committed to fostering an ecosystem of ideas worth spreading. Our event theme is "The Genius of the Crowd;" inspired by a Charles Bukowski poem, our event is driven by the spirit of collaboration and its central role in developing great ideas and creating great things.

Virtual
1570 E Colorado Blvd
Pasadena, California, 91106
United States

Alex Dainis

Science Communicator + Video Producer

Alex Dainis is a freelance science communicator and video producer with eight years of experience producing digital, educational content for the web. Her background includes a Ph.D. in Genetics from Stanford University, and she was honored to be a 2019 Jackson Wild Media Lab Fellow. Her long-running YouTube channel brings biology and genetics to over 40,000 subscribers and her science communication efforts have reached millions of viewers across multiple social media platforms. Now based in Los Angeles, CA, her focus is on bringing humanity and storytelling to science via online media.

Bailey Sok

Professional Dancer + Celebrity Choreographer

Bailey Sok is a seventeen-year-old known for her viral dance videos and her performances in World of Dance. Some of her recognized works include Red Velvet's "Psycho" and SHINee's "Don't Call Me".

Dagogo Altraide

YouTube Educationist

Dagogo Altraide creates and narrates all the videos on ColdFusion. His channel aims to let his audience experience the cutting edge of the world around them in a relaxed atmosphere, touching on business, technology, and other analyses of what the future might hold.

Eddie Gonzales

Diversity and Inclusion Lead

An avid music lover and sneakerhead, Edward Gonzales has built a life walking the walk from street smart to business-savvy. As NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's diversity, equity, and inclusion lead for Heliophysics, he brings his unique blend of experience to one of NASA's most prestigious missions. Having lost his father as a young teen, experienced police profiling and gang violence, he can relate to the struggles that many students face as they embark on their college and career journeys. He is eager to share that all paths to NASA aren't linear and emphasizes the critical importance of creating a workforce pipeline that starts in school, leading to an exciting current project called "Permission to Dream," collaborating with Christopher Gardner (The Pursuit of Happyness) to present inspirational talks at one thousand highs schools across the United States. Edward is the consummate comeback kid -- all setbacks set you up for a comeback.

Ishana Kumar

Young Researcher

Ishana Kumar, 12, is a seventh-grader in Chappaqua, NY. She is the 2020 winner of the Broadcom MASTERS Samueli Foundation Prize for her project investigating optical illusions seen on the Benham’s disk, as well as for her leadership, collaboration, and critical thinking skills. Aside from a deep interest in STEM-related activities, like research, robotics, and Science Olympiad, Ishana is also a fencer and a flutist who enjoys theater and singing. She is a strong proponent of women’s and girls’ rights and believes in questioning stereotypes and social limitations.

Liah Yoo

Entrepreneur + Content Creator

An entrepreneur and a content creator. Based in NYC, Liah is one of the top beauty influencers with more than one million subscribers on YouTube. She is also the founder & CEO of KraveBeauty with a mission to slow down the beauty industry and make the space more human.

Mandy Chan

The Bold Company CEO & Co-Founder

As CEO and Co-Founder of The Bold Company (previously named BOW), she has built a S$2.5 million athleisure brand that has shipped more than 20,000 backpacks to over 26 countries at only 24 years of age through the power of crowdfunding. All of this was achieved through taking a gap year to create her own business from the ground up right before college.

Maximillian Goetz

Social Entrepreneur

Maximilian Goetz is a first-year student at Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. In April 2017, he founded Robotics for All when he was a high school freshman at Henry. M Gunn High School in Palo Alto, CA. He built Robotics for All from the ground up, teaching its first classes and eventually expanding it into a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. In addition to Robotics for All, Maximilian is a pro-bono nonprofit consultant for three student organizations, a tour guide for Georgetown's Blue and Gray tour guide association, and an online English teacher to students in China. In the past, Maximilian served as a student advisor to Congresswoman Anna Eshoo, a lead legislative aide to Councilman Greg Tanaka, and was a member of the Palo Alto Youth Council. Maximilian has served over 3,000 community service hours since his freshman year of high school and is honored to be a two-time President's Gold Community Service Award recipient.

Sasha Renee Perez

Mayor

On November 3rd, 2020, Sasha was elected to Alhambra’s City Council, making her the youngest woman to serve in the city’s history and the youngest female mayor in San Gabriel Valley history. She continues to be an active community member volunteering her time at food banks, serving as a Delegate to the California Democratic Party, and a board member to Asian Youth Center, a 501(C)3 non-profit dedicated to empowering low-income, immigrants, and at-risk youth. In her free time, she enjoys supporting local restaurants, and reading with her cats.

Tamara Wu

Social Entrepreneur

Tamara's experiences cover being in the intersection of corporations and nonprofits as co-founder at Spark Indonesia, and director of her non-profit Second Chance Initiative, focusing on empowering youth and building sustainable communities. Her research work "The upstream and downstream causes of Human Trafficking" was published in a book. She also has written research on "Addressing Homelessness" and "Rape Culture in Indonesia". She consulted for NGOs and social projects around Indonesia working for refugee groups, disaster relief, and rural community development. After becoming runner-up of Miss Indonesia 2019, she was a partnership manager for Digitaraya, Google for Startups accelerator, and had experience in social impact consulting with PLUS and got involved in a US-Based venture capital, Sovereign's Capital. At the age of 21, she started her own fashion social enterprise, Liberty Society, to empower 30 refugee women through giving upskilling opportunities and safe employment.