TEDxSalem VI

Our speakers

• Award-win­ning weblog­ger, neu­ro­sci­en­tist, pod­cast­er, and author Darya Rose will speak on how psy­chol­o­gy impacts your abil­i­ty to cre­ate healthy habits and what to do about it.
• Author Moe Car­rick will explore the provoca­tive ground of women advo­cat­ing for men (ver­sus “help­ing” them) with new ideas of redefin­ing mas­culin­i­ty.
• Hebah Hasan will share how she over­came the soci­etal pres­sure of the Mid­dle East cul­ture she grow up in to obtain an advanced degree and work her way into a lead­er­ship role in her cur­rent job.
• We will also hear from Geri Rich­mond, the Pres­i­den­tial Chair in Sci­ence and Pro­fes­sor of Chem­istry at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Ore­gon who con­ducts research to under­stand the chem­istry and physics of com­plex sur­faces and inter­faces. Geri holds numer­ous notable sci­en­tif­ic accom­plish­ments and was recent­ly award­ed the 2018 Priest­ley Medal from the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety.
• Plus Artist-in-Res­i­dence Rebec­ca Shapiro, who is cre­at­ing our stage dis­play to help set the tone and con­vey the theme of TEDxSalem; Her con­cept is inspired by the word “respect,” which comes from Latin, mean­ing the act of look­ing back (or often).
• Jen­ny­Lynn Diet­rich, an Ore­gon Deaf­Blind Com­mu­ni­ty Alliance Net­work (ODBCAN) Facil­i­ta­tor,  will give us an inner look at the Deaf­Blind com­mu­ni­ty in “Deaf­Blind: We’re Blind but not Blind.”
• Michael Rousell, of South­ern Ore­gon Uni­ver­si­ty, will take us on a jour­ney into how your brain secret­ly changes your beliefs dur­ing moments of sur­prise.
• Car­la Brauer, own­er of Der­mesti­dar­i­um, will speak about how recon­nect­ing with her food changed her life and led her to a career bring­ing new life to the dead as a bone clean­er.
• Under­tak­er Eliz­a­beth Fournier from Cor­ner­stone Funer­al will explore “The Ulti­mate Act of Envi­ron­men­tal Vol­un­teerism.”
• Willamette Uni­ver­si­ty Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor Melis­sa Michaux exam­ines “Restora­tive Jus­tice in prison is nec­es­sary to trans­form pris­on­ers for safer com­mu­ni­ties.”
• Michelle Jones of the Wayfind­ing Acad­e­my will speak on the high­er edu­ca­tion sys­tem, and new mod­els pro­vid­ing alter­na­tive ways of look­ing at the pur­pose of col­lege and its role in help­ing cul­ti­vate ded­i­cat­ed cit­i­zens who know their pur­pose in soci­ety.

  Plus amazing performances by:

  Salem’s own Sleep Mil­len­ni­um!
  Rain­bow Dance The­atre
  Rian Gayle
  Chriss Ross & Nathan Olsen
  and a sur­prise guest to start the event

  Host­ed by award-win­ning singer/songwriter and polit­i­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tions strate­gist Kris­ten Grainger