Past Talks

Explore ideas shared on the TEDxTufts stage.

BLUEPRINTS

2026

Meditating with Movies: The Scenic Route To Healing | DeVante Love

When the Ground Breaks, Be Groundbreaking | Audrey Appleby & Deborah Schwartz

Beyond victimhood: Reimagining vulnerability in humanitarian crises | Emily Ruhm

'Political homes' for youth: Supporting belonging and civic engagement | Seona Maskara | TEDxTufts

The Future is Fiction | Julie Dalton | TEDxTufts

Small Slights, Big Consequences: The Power of Everyday Incivility | John O'Brien

How Handcuffs Set Me Free | Jody Boykins | TEDxTufts

The Third Leg We're Missing in Work-Life Balance | Art Trapotsis | TEDxTufts

Catalyst

2025

What young people should know about fentanyl | Sarah Lotsoff

The Cardinal Sin of Math Education | Christoph Börgers

The Importance of Community | Kentel Weaver | TEDxTufts

Redefining The Underdog: The Invisible Athlete | Gautam Kapur

Hep C: The Curable Virus that We Aren't Curing | Maggie Beiser | TEDxTufts

The Power of Play: How Fun Fuels a Better World | Jane Schmelkin | TEDxTufts

Refraction

2024

The religious roots of diet culture | Sophia Day

The philosophy behind aesthetic microtrends | Nikhil Vootkur

I Am A Responsible Party | Supreme Hassan

Looking Out is Looking In | Bernadette Mary Dineen

Three Colors, Three Cultures | Miguel Basáñez Ebergenyi | TEDxTufts

What if our world valued aging? | Peter Kaldes

[De/Re] Construct

2023

Autistic media needs an intervention | Shania Cox

How to starve patriarchal clinical/sexual health care | Ariel Watriss

Reimagining the Uterus and Endometriosis Disease | Juan Gnecco | TEDxTufts

Dreading the apocalypse? Go watch a movie! | Malia Kiang

The Way of the Fool | Sheriden Thomas

Undercurrents

2022

A Broken Healthcare System: Racism and Maternal Health | Dr. Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha

Flights to Freedom - American Diplomacy and Human Rights | Mark Storella | TEDxTufts

Lessons about the West from Zimbabwe's Pandemic Response | Charming Dube | TEDxTufts

We're Saving the Wrong Bees | Nicholas Dorian

A philosophy of kindness | Audrey Ledbetter | TEDxTufts

The Muse of Alzheimer's: Turning "Tragedy" Into Art | Joel Frenzer

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