TEDxBloomington : JumpIN!
03/22/2013
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A Case Study in Global Health | Bob Einterz
The Marketecture of Community | Brad Wheeler
A Journey in my Jordans | Cameray Boyden
I Fell | Daniel Evans
We Need to Talk about Depression | Darryl Neher
Making Sex Normal | Debby Herbenick
No Health Without Mental Health | Denny Morrison
A Brainfood Prescription from the Farmacy | Drew Ramsey
Women with Will | Emily Ward
How to Talk About Race | Eric Deggans
Maps and Macroscopes: Gaining Insights from BIG Data | Katy Borner
Want It? Make it Happen | Kelly McBride
Who Becomes a Leader? (It Could Be You) | Larry Singell
Technology For Social Good | Laurie McRobbie
Jump Into Math | Malke Rosenfeld
A Curriculum on Medical Ignorance | Maryls Witte
How To Design a Life of Yes! | Saya Hilman
How I Became a Google Doodler | Ryan Germick
Our Esteemed Speakers
Laurie Burns McRobbie
Title of Talk : Technology For Social Good
Indiana Universityâs First Lady, Laurie is founder and honorary chair of the Womenâs Philanthropy Council. A technologist in higher ed for more than 25 years, she is an adjunct professor in the IU School of Informatics and Computing. She founded ServeIT, a service-learning program for undergrads providing IT services to small Bloomington-area nonprofits. She serves on numerous boards, including Middle Way House, a national model program addressing domestic violence. Laurie was named Woman of the Year by the Cityâs Commission on the Status of Women in 2012.
Bob Einterz
Title of Talk : A Case Study in Global Health
Robert Einterz, MD, is the Donald E. Brown Professor of Global Health and Associate Dean for Global Health at Indiana University School of Medicine, Director of the Indiana University Center for Global Health and a hospitalist and teacher at Wishard Memorial Hospital in Indianapolis. Dr. Einterz directs a consortium of North American universities in partnership with Moi University and Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. This partnership, co-founded by Dr. Einterz in 2000, is named the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH). AMPATH is responsible for a comprehensive system of health care services, research and training in western Kenya. AMPATHâs primary care and chronic disease management programs deliver healthcare services to a population of more than 3 million people in western Kenya.
Brad Wheeler
Title of Talk : The Marketecture of Community
Dr. Brad Wheeler, Indiana Universityâs Vice President for Information Technology and CIO, leads university-wide IT services for IUâs eight campuses. He has co-founded and led remarkable software and service collaborations such as the Sakai Project, Kuali, and the HathiTrust. Most recently, he developed IUâs eTexts Initiative and implemented a cutting edge delivery model to tackle the high costs of textbooks for students. A member of various boards and organizations, Dr. Wheeler focuses on leadership and meaningful collaboration in higher education. He is also a professor of information systems in IUâs Kelley School of Business, and has taught executive programs for corporate and MBA audiences on six continents.
Larry Singell
Title of Talk : Who Becomes a Leader? (It Could Be You)
Larry is a Professor of Economics and Executive Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University. His research focuses on the role that education plays in labor-market outcomes and the extent to which these investments differentially affect choices and opportunities. He also studies the economics of higher education on topics ranging from the effects of financial aid programs on access, retention, and graduation, to the ways in which education and career choices affect faculty placement in academic leadership positions. He serves on the editorial board of the Economics of Education Review, the leading journal on the economics of education. Larry will speak on recurring themes among people who become leaders.
Marlys Witte
Title of Talk : A Curriculum on Medical Ignorance
Dr. Witte is Professor of Surgery and Director of Student Research at the University of Arizona, President of the Ignorance Foundation, and Secretary-General of the International Society of Lymphology. âMother of the Ignorance Movement,â she created an internationally recognized Curriculum on Medical (and Other) Ignorance and targets medical, graduate, undergraduate and K-12 students and teachers. To emphasize âignoramicsâ as the counterbalance to Informatics, she is now designing The Ignorance University to rescue educational institutions from the Knowledge Factory business model they have become.
Darryl Neher
Title of Talk : We Need to Talk about Depression
Darryl is an award-winning Senior Lecturer of Business Communication at the Kelley School of Business. Darryl moved to Bloomington to attend graduate school and never left. In the late â90âs, he co-founded WFHBâs Interchange program, and for 8 years, he hosted The Afternoon Edition on WGCL, where he facilitated community dialogue on issues important to his listeners throughout south-central Indiana. Darryl serves as a Co-Chair for the Foundation of MCCSC, is a member of the Board of Directors for Marthaâs House, Vice-Chair of the Bloomington Commission on Sustainability and Council President for Bloomingtonâs City Council.
Denny Morrison
Title of Talk : No Health Without Mental Health
Dr. Morrison holds degrees in Psychology, Exercise Physiology and Counseling Psychology from Ball State University and has worked in the behavioral health field since 1969. He currently serves as the Chief Clinical Officer for Netsmart, the leading provider of clinical solutions for health and human services organizations in the United States. Prior to joining Netsmart in 2012, he served as the CEO of the Center for Behavioral Health (CBH) in Bloomington and the CEO for Centerstone Research Institute, a group that conducted behavioral health clinical research and managed Electronic Health Records technology for 70,000 patients. Dr. Morrison will speak on the connections between our minds and bodies, and the need for medical practitioners and social service practitioners to consider both physical and emotional issues when treating clients.
Drew Ramsey
Title of Talk : A Brainfood Prescription from the Farmacy
Drew Ramsey, MD is one of psychiatryâs leading proponents of dietary change to balance mood, sharpen brain function and improve mental health. Drew is an assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University in New York and his clinical work focuses on the treatment of depression and anxiety with a combination of psychotherapy, diet and lifestyle modification as well as psychopharmacology. His books, The Happiness Diet (Rodale 2011) and 50 Shades of Kale (Harper/Wave 2013), and blogs The Farmacy and Recipe for Happiness, aim to help people eat better for healthy brains and happy lives.
Malke Rosenfeld
Title of Talk : Jump Into Math
Malke is a percussive dancer and teaching artist. In her program, Math in Your Feet, percussive dance becomes the platform for choreographic inquiry into mathematical thinking, practices and topics. Malke also shares her work with teachers who wish to add movement as a learning tool in their classrooms. As editor of ALT/space, an international online writing project of the Teaching Artist Journal, she curates stories of practice from those working at the crossroads of art and learning. Malke is also a contributing writer to the Moebius Noodle, a blog that focuses on math experiences for babies, toddlers, young children and their adults!
Emily Ward
Title of Talk : Women with Will
Emily is the Program Director for Aquatics, Informal Sports, Student Personnel and Facility Scheduling at Indiana University. In 1998, she started âWomen With Willâ (W3), a multiâsport training group. What started out as a few women has grown to a community of more than 100 women, exercising together regularly and contributing to each otherâs lives immeasurably. Emily previously served as the Program Director in Education Services at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (1994-96), and the Womenâs Swimming and Diving Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at the University of Buffalo (1983-94). While at SUNY-Buffalo, Emily & another female coach founded the Linda Yalem Safety Run to honor the memory of a young woman who was murdered while running on a campus trail. The race annually attracts over 1,500 runners & walkers and more than 600 volunteers.
Daniel Evans
Title of Talk : I Fell
Evans received his MFA in ceramics from Alfred University and then settled in Bloomington, but found no place for a free agent artist like himself to work. He launched the Bloomington Clay Studio, then faced insurmountable zoning issues and was forced to close. He then partnered with a historic preservation expert who showed him the Fell Building, a former car dealership downtown. They formed I. Fell LLC, opening a generous studio space for students and local artisans. Evans says developing the Fell Building to foster creativity feels vitally important and worth the risk.
Cameray Boyden
Title of Talk : A Journey in my Jordans
Cameray is a Senior, studying nonprofit management at Indiana University. Throughout her life, she witnessed friends and family battling the consequences of addiction and struggling to make positive choices. In December 2009, her best friend was murdered at the age of 21 and less than six months later another man in her neighborhood was also murdered. These experiences led Cameray to create the West Indianapolis Peace Park, a community garden honoring loved ones who lost their lives to drugs or violence. While interning with Marion Superior Juvenile Probation, Cameray initiated Seeds in the Sidewalk, an urban mentoring program geared toward at-risk youth and young adults on Juvenile Probation. Cameray is a firm believer, and a living example of the awesome potential that exists among youth in urban communities.
Eric Deggans
Title of Talk : How to Talk About Race
Eric is an Indiana University graduate with degrees in Political Science and Journalism. He currently serves as TV and Media Critic for the Tampa Bay (Fla.) Times, freelance commentator on TV for National Public Radio and sports media columnist for IUâs National Sports Journalism Center. He has appeared as a pundit on CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and the PBS NewsHour, while his work has appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Salon magazine, the New York Times website and many more publications. In 2009, he was named one of Ebony magazineâs âPower 150,â a list of influential black Americans. Ericâs new book, Race-Baiter: How the Media Wields Dangerous Words to Divide a Nation, looks in-depth at how prejudice, racism and sexism fuel elements of modern media.
Debby Herbenick
Title of Talk : Making Sex Normal
Dr. Debby Herbenick is a research scientist at Indiana Universityâs School of Public Health-Bloomington, co-director of the Center for Sexual Health Promotion, and sexual health educator at The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction. The author of five books about sex and love, Dr. Herbenickâs latest is Sex Made Easy: Your Awkward Questions Answered for Better, Smarter, Amazing Sex (Running Press, 2012). Among her greatest passions is translating sexual science to the general public through teaching, books, columns, podcasts, television, social media, blogging, crafting, public art, and her latest project: Make Sex Normal. m Director in Education Services at the National Collegiate Athletic Association (1994-96), and the Womenâs Swimming and Diving Coach and Assistant Athletic Director at the University of Buffalo (1983-94). While at SUNY-Buffalo, Emily & another female coach founded the Linda Yalem Safety Run to honor the memory of a young woman who was murdered while running on a campus trail. The race annually attracts over 1,500 runners & walkers and more than 600 volunteers.
Saya Hillman
Title of Talk : How To Design a Life of Yes!
A Boston College graduate and Chicago native and resident, Saya has cobbled together a career of hanging out in coffeehouses with passionate people, playing board games with strangers on her couch, and performing âbadlyâ (dance, improv, stepping, etc.) in front of sold-out theaters of 700+. Via her company Mac ân Cheese Productions, she helps others live a Life of Yes! and has discovered how to turn her love of creating community, challenging herself and those around her, and enjoying life to its fullest into her âjob.â She was one of Brazen Careeristâs Top Twenty Young Professionals to Watch in 2012. Speaking in front of others terrifies her, which is why she continues to do it.
Kelly McBride
Title of Talk : Want It? Make it Happen
Kelly E. McBride has resided in Bloomington for 25 years. The first public event she co-directed was Earth Day in 1990, one of the largest events ever held in Dunn Meadow. In 1995 she founded the group Lascivious Exhibitions and created EROTICON, to promote sexual health and open, honest communication. For over a decade, LE awarded over $10,000 in grants, and educated multitudes of lovers. An avid quad roller skater, Kelly co-founded Bloomingtonâs Bleeding Heartland Rollergirls in 2006, one of the first 50 roller derby leagues in the country and the first outside a major metropolitan area. In 2012, Kelly founded KLAW, the Krampus Legend and Arts Workshop, which brought the mysterious Krampus to Bloomington. In their inaugural appearance, the Krampus were enjoyed by over 1,000 people. Krampus Night 2013 will be even more enchanting.
Katy Börner
Title of Talk : Maps and Macroscopes: Gaining Insights from BIG Data
Katy is a Professor in the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University and serves as an adjunct professor in the School of Informatics and Computing, the Department of Statistics in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Cognitive Science program. She is a Founding Director of the Cyberinfrastructure for Network Science Center at IU and a curator of the international Places & Spaces: Mapping Science exhibit. Her research focuses on the development of data analysis and visualization techniques for information access, understanding, and management. Katy will talk about the power of data analytics and visualizations aiming to inspire anyone to use macroscopes to navigate and manage massive streams of data, make informed decisions, and have fun with big data.
Ryan Germick
Title of Talk : How I Became a Google Doodler
Ryan is the Creative Team Lead for Google Doodle where he manages the artists behind Googleâs ever-changing homepage logos. He has personally directed, illustrated, designed, animated, and collaborated on more than 100 âdoodlesâ, including those celebrating Pac-Man, Les Paul, Robert Moog, Star Trek, Charlie Chaplin, Jim Henson, Dr. Seuss, and Sesame Street. Ryan is originally from Northwest Indiana and before joining the team at Google in 2006, he attended Parsons School of Design. Ryan is presenting a tool he developed to help his team at Google develop and defend creative ideas.
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