TEDxBloomington : Grow
08/24/2018
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The Dichotomy of White Women | Shannon Downey
How to Help Youth See Past the Present and Dream Big | Brian Richardson
The Secret to Smarter Cities | Santi Garces
What Happens When Organizations Bear the Burden of Belonging? | Michele Mattoon
Why Pregnancy is Not Just a Woman’s Issue | Lizzy Bartelt
Lessons Learned from the Onion’s Creative Process | Brian Janosch
Our Esteemed Speakers
Shannon Downey
Title of Talk : The Dichotomy of White Women
Shannon is a community organizer disguised as a fiber artist. She blends politics, activism, and art into projects that are designed to inspire others to take action, think, discuss, engage with democracy and their community, and find some digital/analog balance. Her work has recently been seen in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Money, Time, Bust, and Elle. She if founder of the global craftivism project Badass HERstory and the community Seriously Badass Women. Shannon is the Director of Development for a Chicago-based nonprofit working on racial equity and is adjunct faculty at DePaul University and Columbia College Chicago. She is currently working on her first book.
Brian Richardson
Title of Talk : How to Help Youth See Past the Present and Dream Big
Founder of the Krimson Leadership Academy and Director for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Indiana University-Bloomington School of Public and Environmental Affairs, serves the Bloomington-area community as the Vice-Chairperson on the Commission for the Status of Black Males through the Bloomington Mayor’s office. Mr. Richardson strives to create change and inspire others to be their greatest selves, and helps others become leaders. He is one the 2018 City of Bloomington’s “10 Under 40 Influential Leaders,” and Bloomington’s 2017 Outstanding Black Male Leader of Tomorrow.
Santi Garces
Title of Talk : The Secret to Smarter Cities
Santi Garces, hired by Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, 7 years ago “to help the community rediscover what it means to be a city,” Mr. Garces started the Department of Innovation and Technology in South Bend, and is Chief Innovation Officer, focused on improving the efficiency and effectiveness of municipal services by developing talent, optimizing processes, and designing technology solutions. He helps South Bend collaborate with the University of Notre Dame on smart city research.
Michele Mattoon
Title of Talk : What Happens When Organizations Bear the Burden of Belonging?
Michele Mattoon is director of the National School Reform Faculty (NSRF), an organization that teaches educators how to improve school culture. She’s also president and owner of Coltrain Group, which teaches leadership skills that emphasize collaboration tools (protocols) that foster community and maximize productivity. She has worked with businesses and educational groups around the world, training their employees to work together better. Michele is obsessed with intentionally building healthy, productive communities through the use of specific collaborative structures.
Lizzy Bartelt
Title of Talk : Why Pregnancy is Not Just a Woman’s Issue
Lizzy Doctoral Student at Indiana University and has worked in sexual health and with LGBTQ+ youth for many years. She has done research studies related to bisexuality among parents in both heterosexual and LGBTQ+ communities. Lizzy’s research focuses on sexual and gender minority youth and their experiences with sexual and reproductive health care.
Brian Janosch
Title of Talk : Lessons Learned from the Onion's Creative Process
Brian Janosch has spent his career collaborating with creative teams. His journey began creating comedy at The Onion and Adult Swim, meandered into inventing the personality of Google's AI, and most recently he's been making impact through story at IDEO. Somewhere along the way Brian co-founded Cultivated Wit, a company at the juncture between comedy and technology. The common connector through his uncommon career has been incredible teammates and a commitment to process — often a process he has helped shape. Brian spent his 20s in Brooklyn and currently lives in San Francisco. But no matter where he is, he'll always be a Midwesterner at his core.
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