TEDxBloomingtonWomen : Bold and Brilliant
12/12/2019
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Unlocking the Secret History of Women’s Speech | Dana Rubin
The devastating fragility of endurance | Katie Ingram
Reinventing a Career & Defining Success on Your Terms | Caroline Dowd-Higgins
Learning to Swim is a Human Right | Tiffany Monique Quash
I’ve taken 40,000 photos and 30,000 are selfies | Ellise Antoinette Smith
Embrace the beauty of a world without waste | Nikki Pohl
Our Esteemed Speakers
Dana Rubin
Title of Talk : Unlocking the Secret History of Women’s Speech
Dana Rubin is a leadership communications advisor and an advocate for women’s voices and speech. She’s the founder of Speaking While Female, a consultancy that helps organizations achieve their goals through targeted thought leadership campaigns, coaching, speaking, and training. She also created the Speaking While Female Speech Bank, an online collection of contemporary and historical speeches by women. Dana earned degrees with honors from Yale and the University of Texas, and she lives in Westchester County, New York.
Katie Ingram
Title of Talk : The devastating fragility of endurance
Katie Ingram is a seasoned ironman triathlete and experienced coach, having completed nine ironman races, a dozen half-ironman races and a multitude of other distance events which include National and World Championships appearances and a 2nd place finish at National Open Water Championships. Her athletes have competed worldwide and are national and world championship qualifiers in triathlon, swimming, cycling, and running. She is the author of the popular blog, run this amazing day. After a decade coaching athletes all around the world as head coach of Team Amazing Day, she has returned to Bloomington as a Ph.D. candidate in the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Management and Entrepreneurship program.
Caroline Dowd-Higgins
Title of Talk : Reinventing a Career & Defining Success on Your Terms
Caroline Dowd-Higgins is committed to helping people enjoy their careers, so they can love their lives! A proud career reinventor, her first love was singing opera and now she helps others navigate their professional journey to play to their strengths so they can thrive. With 19 years of career and professional development experience, Caroline authored the book and maintains the blog: This Is Not the Career I Ordered. She writes for: Medium, Ellevate Network, Thrive Global, and a column for The Chronicle newspaper in Indiana. Her podcast, Your Working Life was awarded one of the Best Career Podcasts of 2017, 2018 and 2019 by Mac’s List, and she hosts an online video series with Pro-Tip wisdom about life and career on YouTube. She is Vice President of Career Coaching and Employer Connections for the Ivy Tech Community College system serving 18 campuses across Indiana. carolinedowdhiggins.com.
Tiffany Monique Quash
Title of Talk : Learning to Swim is a Human Right
Tiffany Monique Quash describes her mission in life as, “Learning to Swim is a Human Right” with her research focusing on the intersectionality of race, gender, and historical relationships with swimming. As a former collegiate swimmer and USA Swim Coach, Tiffany continuously improves perceptions of a Black body in an aquatic space by listening to the stories of other Black swimmers. Her role as the Director of Operations with the International Water Safety Foundation, a non-profit organization, and as a doctoral candidate at Indiana University challenges and provides a space for the historical narrative, encouraging all to learn-to-swim, and educating everyone about water safety.
Ellise Antoinette Smith
Title of Talk : I've taken 40,000 photos and 30,000 are selfies
Ellise Antoinette Smith is a doctoral student at Indiana University studying Urban Education from Detroit, MI with a research focus on the experiences of bodies that identify as fat. With an interdisciplinary focus, Smith uses photography (#VisualActivism), podcasting, spoken word poetry, hip-hop culture, freestyle lyricism and social media as a catalyst to center the narratives of fat bodies. As an emerging artist and scholar, Smith has dedicated her life to creating celebratory spaces for marginalized identities that she also holds using frameworks such as Black Feminist Thought and Critical Race Theory to ensure the work and narratives around bigger bodies are included in academia and challenging the dominant narrative around body image acceptance.
Nikki Pohl
Title of Talk : Embrace the beauty of a world without waste
Nikki Pohl is Professor of Chemistry at Indiana University, where she leads a group doing carbohydrate research. She loves applying and sharing knowledge of chemistry to make life sustainably beautiful and a little simpler.
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