https://www.tedxtufts.org/let-thoughts-take-flight-gallery daily 0.75 2019-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028796053-BI8A50PO8GH6N6OTDA2D/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - Embracing female leadership in crisis and beyond As millennials of today are groomed to be the next generation of transformational leaders of tomorrow, how do we transition from an antiquated male-dominated business world to one of gender equality, which fosters more collaboration? Angeli Gianchandani highlights the necessity for female leadership to become a priority of core business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028796053-BI8A50PO8GH6N6OTDA2D/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - Embracing female leadership in crisis and beyond As millennials of today are groomed to be the next generation of transformational leaders of tomorrow, how do we transition from an antiquated male-dominated business world to one of gender equality, which fosters more collaboration? Angeli Gianchandani highlights the necessity for female leadership to become a priority of core business. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/5c44ffa7bba223672022033c/5c450b7b92c3964b917f0fb5/1548028795852/ Let Thoughts Take Flight https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028854044-6QGCO0JKMYNP4BNA2PUI/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - On Pedestals What happens when we take people we admire off a porcelain pedestal? Marcella Hastings explores the value in humanizing these mentors and advisers and recognizing that these pedestals are actually made of "bricks and bits of sand and glue and a couple coats of paint." https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028905129-0VPECYI4DEWFQHADFOJ3/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - An evidence-based, personalized approach to health Michael Lustgarten probes at the science behind living forever. Michael studies serum metabolomics to investigate mechanisms that underlie muscle mass and physical function in older adults. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028929092-0GM93OZG2VO1IVKZMHX0/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - The Dao of getting lost Between training at the Wudang Kung Fu Academy and trekking 1200 miles through rural China on a motorcycle, James Kiefner discovered the imperfect route through the Taoist ideal of the perfect, uncarved block. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028972019-0JWWGWZIOFXB6Q4B23YQ/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - Something out of nothing: A brand new language Rabia Ergin has looked to the Central Taurus Sign Language, a village sign language native to her ancestors of rural Turkey, to study the evolution of human communication and its complexities, such as syntax and compound words. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548029010013-UWP5VZVHC133E3NL69DA/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - The renaissance of voice Gracie McKenzie asserts that Plato would have liked Siri. Modern technology has dramatically influenced the way in which humans communicate. In a world with dozens of platforms for exchanging information, is the sound of the human voice going anywhere? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548029055392-9D0JX2ESFD7Q9VNDNVEW/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - Finding friendship in a grande latte: story of cross-cultural engagement While traveling abroad, you are an ambassador of your homeland and have an incredible opportunity to build or destroy bridges between “us” and “them”. During his travels, Jeremy Blaney has tried to affect the former in the simplest of ways: by going somewhere familiar, a Starbucks, and using a mutual love of coffee as a starting point to dialogue about life in our respective corners of the world. The results have reaffirmed a deep-seeded belief: we’re one cup of coffee away from building a better and more understanding world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548029086134-G7I1JPTKX7CDBLKEIHIO/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - The boxes we check As a buzzword in today's society, privilege comes with a host of associations, each from a unique perspective. Abuzar Royesh reflects on how his deep-engrained ethnic biases influenced his self-perception of privilege. He wants to change the conversation about privilege, which currently does nothing but create boundaries and strain relationships, in order to see individuals for who they really are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548029121978-UI718V33EDJOQSEW0QMU/image-asset.jpeg Let Thoughts Take Flight - From ivory tower to ivory trade A professor, librarian, and student come together to piece apart how Tufts University, as a comprehensive research university with an "active citizen" mentality--not to mention whose mascot, Jumbo, is the most famous animal in history--can combat the ivory trade. https://www.tedxtufts.org/verge-gallery daily 0.75 2019-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027604367-DA85I4XY9CHEM8DJWBKB/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - A refugee rescue mission story: Uncovering distinct competences How can making a decision with moral significance shape your identify? Listen to Sasha Chanoff’s moving personal story on how he found his calling on a rescue mission in the Congo that prompted him to start an organization aimed towards helping refugees. Learn from Sasha how you can use difficult moral decision points in your life to reveal your unique competence in the world. Sasha Chanoff is the founder and executive director of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for the most at risk refugees. Recognized widely through media and social entrepreneurship accolades, RefugePoint was initially developed at Tufts where Sasha received his Master's in Humanitarian Assistance through the Fletcher and Nutrition Schools and guidance and instrumental support from the Institute for Global Leadership. Sasha's book, From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions, will be published on June 6, 2016. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027604367-DA85I4XY9CHEM8DJWBKB/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - A refugee rescue mission story: Uncovering distinct competences How can making a decision with moral significance shape your identify? Listen to Sasha Chanoff’s moving personal story on how he found his calling on a rescue mission in the Congo that prompted him to start an organization aimed towards helping refugees. Learn from Sasha how you can use difficult moral decision points in your life to reveal your unique competence in the world. Sasha Chanoff is the founder and executive director of RefugePoint, a humanitarian organization that finds lasting solutions for the most at risk refugees. Recognized widely through media and social entrepreneurship accolades, RefugePoint was initially developed at Tufts where Sasha received his Master's in Humanitarian Assistance through the Fletcher and Nutrition Schools and guidance and instrumental support from the Institute for Global Leadership. Sasha's book, From Crisis to Calling: Finding Your Moral Center in the Toughest Decisions, will be published on June 6, 2016. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/5c44ff997924e87e3c6c3a96/5c4506d4f87ffceb58e492bd/1548027604056/ Verge Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027659107-6LA3MW61DQNLPC36MT4Q/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Food for thought: Empowering humans with data Ever been confused as to where to eat? We’ve all been there. Imagine if we had data to help us make these decisions. Tune in to see how Neal Jawadekar and his team created a restaurant-grading system for Boston. Data is available and all around us - learn from him how we can empower ourselves with it. Neal Jawadekar graduated with a BA/MPH from Tufts University in 2014, where he played on the tennis team and co-founded the Association of Multiracial People at Tufts. He is currently a Big Data Analyst at Predilytics, an advanced healthcare analytics company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027692411-Y8K924QTRZO9B98YAXFT/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Using motivated empathy to address societal issues What are your subtle biases? Everybody has them, but we have a hard time acknowledging and coming to terms with them. Jennifer Perry takes on a neurological perspective to discuss the importance of accepting our subtle biases and using our motivated empathy to help address societal issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027725362-BLWLSW1JLR840CFZC4XA/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Creating a better world through artificial intelligence What do you think of when you hear Artificial Intelligence? Do you think of movies about a robot apocalypse? Debunking this popular belief, Max Bennett explains how our future with artificial Intelligence is not the plot of a movie and how we can use empiricism and knowledge about human cognition to create a better world with artificial intelligence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027798035-US2BJRD6BWKWDOUD2F41/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - I don't know, so I will listen Some questions are best left unanswered, right? Wrong. At a deep psychological level, human beings have a need for closure. How does this closure make us simplify some of the world’s most complex matters? Watch to see why we are drawn to simple answers and what we miss when we accept them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027833828-9FQHN94AZPDAOTR4XUUE/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Keeping the classical music story alive How does music make you feel? Violinist Sam Weiser explores the idea of classical music as a narrative art form. Unbeknownst to many, the biggest musicians are some of the world’s greatest storytellers. Sam believes that we should break down the barriers that surround classical music today and bring its creative potential to a wider, younger audience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027874025-6I03ARY5184AM3V8DU1B/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Creating partnerships and social change through multimedia tools How can video games fuel positive disruption? Listen to Mahmoud Jabari talk about how he and his team used a video game to educate young men and women in the Middle East about equality and gendered violence. Mahmoud emphasizes the need for collaboration to overcome physical and cultural barriers in order to make positive change in the world. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1550271467085-M3EIKC61087W3447DH37/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - A healthy mind, not just the absence of mental illness Why do we treat our physical well-being and mental well-being so differently? When we tear our ACL, we give our body time to recover. But when we’re suffering from a mental illness, we rarely take the time to properly care for ourselves. In her talk, Jimena Sanchez Gallego talks about how mental health is not just about mental illness, it is about mental well-being. Jimena’s personal story and research goes a long way in breaking the stigma around mental health on college campuses today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028589494-SL6LPLAN2Q0LL0F7OPCP/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Re-imagining the undergraduate experience What did you think of your undergraduate education? Was there ways you thought it could be improved? Listen to Howard Woolf discuss the alternatives to those old creaky structures -- the lecture, the test, the primacy of information over process and practice -- that still dominate undergraduate education. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028660395-5XNNUTDYSY9QHMX4CGVM/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - Chemistry is fun. No, seriously! How do you feel about chemistry? If you dislike chemistry, or think it’s inaccessible, you’re not alone. Jordin Metz wants to break down the barriers to chemistry, and show people that chemistry is all around us. Whether you love or hate chemistry, Jordin wants you to find the relevance of chemistry in your life. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028680194-JIJ7SCNQKHMWJBIIMCS9/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - The subjectivity of truth What is truth? And how does it lead to reconciliation? Can confronting the hard truths can bring about justice and healing in the aftermath of violent conflict? Though anecdotes of her childhood in the deep south, her travels from Northern Ireland to Ferguson, MO, and her work as a peace and justice educator, Laura Graham transforms the narrative of her own experiences to a call to action for us all. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028711130-P5A7C5O2YFK1MX0MSE5F/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - The reconciliation of numbers & narratives Do you believe a statistic more than you believe a story? How does this belief shape how your decisions and ultimately your life? Soubhik Barari discusses the historical debate between the power of numbers vs. the power of narratives. Listen in to hear more about his findings of how human beings can reconcile quantitative and qualitative belief framework and use both in unison to make the next great human advances. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548028736209-OIINM1YEEQTV4HXRCWY9/image-asset.jpeg Verge Gallery - What do our movements say about who we are? Do our movements define us? Cristina Rosa explores the answer to this question by talking about and demonstrating the Afro-Brazilian aesthetic -- a different way of moving across and thinking about the world. By examining the intersection of movement and identity, Cristina performs and reveals the volumes that movements speak. https://www.tedxtufts.org/rhizome-gallery daily 0.75 2019-12-04 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/t/5de704a940f75552fd3d6ac6/1548026960865/ Rhizome Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026961191-NF40P3QBCGP2WL5XRJIS/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Let's Talk About Death In her TEDxTufts talk, Isabel Merrin tackles ideas about death and dying, and why young people are so afraid to have these tricky conversations. Through her experiences working in hospice care, Isabel has developed a unique perspective on end of life care. Isabel is a senior studying Art History. Aside from her passion for hospice care, she is a Tisch Scholar, interning for The Conversation Project, the leader of Moral Voices, a social justice initiative, and a campus tour guide. In her spare time, she enjoys creative writing and baking. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/5c44ff87c74c502487494766/5c45045188f1af1fd0336cba/1548026960865/ Rhizome Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027224229-FMFDJYDNM8DXECU2LJ2B/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Autism? From the TEDxTufts stage, Justin Robbins shares his experiences with the autism community, and where the dominant narrative emerges when it comes to policy, social interaction, and identity politics. As an autistic individual himself, Justin tells his side of a story that is not often heard. Justin Robbins is a senior double majoring in biology and history. He is the co-founder and president of the Coalition for Autism Support at Tufts (CAST), a support and advocacy group by and for autistic students. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027254228-T6VY5RPT4GXJMYBN0TUW/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - #StayWoke or Stay Divided Through her experiences with activism during her undergraduate career, Alyssa Rivas has observed an emerging theme of "wokeness" within her peers, and has questions about its impact on the larger social community. From the TEDxTufts stage, Alyssa defines wokeness, allyship, and what it means to be part of a community where identity, background, and intention intersect. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027290091-06ZPJHTH548J7ILNF6CJ/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Speaking While Female As a seasoned public speaker and leading member of her debate team, Manal Cheema has noticed a trend in the evaluation of the female voice. From the TEDxTufts stage, Manal demonstrates to the audience where the female voice lands in the scheme of public speaking. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027318962-R1JRHSHWOM3Z9HN6SUTW/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - How's it Going? Atreyo Sinha comes to the TEDxTufts stage as a both a person that is passionate about human interaction as well as a global citizen. As a citizen of India, Atreyo offers a non-American perspective on the intricacies of small talk and pesonal connection. Relentlessly inquisitive, he strives to understand the intricacies and nuances that influence popular culture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027401071-75ODKXY8PRFKYCMDMSEZ/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Embracing Science as a Verb What is a scientist? Rachael Bonoan, a PhD candidate studyig nutritional ecology and ecological immunity in honey bees at Tufts University, redefines the answer to this question from her observations of curiosity in chidlren. Rachael is a Ph.D. Candidate who studies honey bee nutritional ecology in the Starks Lab at Tufts University. She is interested in how seasonal changes in the distribution and abundance of flowers (i.e. honey bee food!) affect honey bee health and behavior. Rachael is also the President of the Boston Area Beekeepers Association and enjoys communicating her research and the importance of pollinator health to scientists, beekeepers, garden clubs, and the general public. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027441210-66OZIW0VH1JWWDN1UJJI/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Floppy Fish and the Mystery of Muscle Neuroscience and biomechanics researcher Eric Tytell observes the muscles in marine life to emphasize the importance of observing the planet's biodiversity. By breaking down the machinery of fishes, Eric demonstrates that we can find solutions to some of life's problems by observing the life around us. Eric Tytell is an assistant professor of Biology at Tufts University, where he studies how fish swim, from the spinal cord of lampreys to the fluid flowing around sunfish. In his research, he aims to understand how fish bodies and brains work together so that they can swim stably and efficiently, even in flowing water with unpredictable turbulence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027472171-G6Y8H3JBV9AGGX4NIEIF/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Targeted, Accused and Why I Teach About Justice What happens when you are accused of a crime that you did not do? In 2010 , this happened to Sonja Spears, a justice of twelve years in New Orleans, Louisiana. Justice Spears tells her story of protecting herself from an unjust manipulation of the law from the TEDxTufts stage. Sonja M. Spears is a Tufts graduate and a retired judge with twelve years of judicial service. She is eternally hopeful and confident that upcoming generations will choose to create a future where equality, justice and compassion are priorities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027504241-DRGB82E0CED6Q40WOKXH/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - Humanizing the Science Conversation Lead stem cell researcher in Boston, Massachusetts, Jonathan Garlick tells his story of how to engage in productive dialogue around divisive scientific topics. An educator at Tufts University and a "civic scientist", Jonathan gives his perspective on how to be a member of the scientific community through rap. Jonathan Garlick is a stem cell scientist who teaches that learning about sciences issues through a personal, reflective lens can inspire empathy, moral responsibility and civic action. He deeply believes that we can build trust, dignity and humility through open-minded dialogue across divisive societal issues by being genuinely curious about each other. He believes that rapping helps, too. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548027535166-5NWU8TUA7GVU6DXNCQX6/image-asset.jpeg Rhizome Gallery - How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Enjoy Being an Anime Expert A trailblazer in her field of animation scholarship, Susan Napier opened a field of study that left many questioning her decisions, but continued forward in the pursuit of her passions. A professor of Japanese and Film studies at Tufts University, Susan tells her story of resilience in the face of doubt. https://www.tedxtufts.org/revision-gallery daily 0.75 2019-02-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548025899830-53U0Y3T5CXYWRT4JOHW9/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Meet A Refugee Alexandra Tarzikhan is a JD/MPH student at Northeastern School of Law and Tufts School of Medicine. She left her hometown of Aleppo, Syria in 2011, right at the start of the war. In 2015, when she began to hear about the magnitude of the refugee crisis, she felt the need to go and do something about it. This November was her third time volunteering in Lesvos, Greece, and she has also visited several camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Now that she is back in Boston, she wants to try to help resettled Syrians here. She believes that all of the refugees she met while volunteering , can succeed if only they had access to the opportunities she did. She believes in leveraging oneself to empower others, which is why she started a social media page called Meet A Refugee, as a way of raising awareness through the sharing of their stories. Her talk aims to raise awareness about the refugee crisis and humanize the issue rather than discussing it from a political or legal perspective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548025899830-53U0Y3T5CXYWRT4JOHW9/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Meet A Refugee Alexandra Tarzikhan is a JD/MPH student at Northeastern School of Law and Tufts School of Medicine. She left her hometown of Aleppo, Syria in 2011, right at the start of the war. In 2015, when she began to hear about the magnitude of the refugee crisis, she felt the need to go and do something about it. This November was her third time volunteering in Lesvos, Greece, and she has also visited several camps in Lebanon and Jordan. Now that she is back in Boston, she wants to try to help resettled Syrians here. She believes that all of the refugees she met while volunteering , can succeed if only they had access to the opportunities she did. She believes in leveraging oneself to empower others, which is why she started a social media page called Meet A Refugee, as a way of raising awareness through the sharing of their stories. Her talk aims to raise awareness about the refugee crisis and humanize the issue rather than discussing it from a political or legal perspective. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/5c44ff33032be40b0125ad72/5c45002ba3140500010950a4/1548025899530/ Re:vision Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548025988984-JMD16Z7DD9S85CZGOD3G/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Urban-Design as a Peace Building Tool Benya Kraus is a Tufts alum who majored in International Relations and double-minoring in Urban Studies and Colonialism Studies. She’s been involved in Amnesty International USA on several different levels, including currently as a member of the Board’s Priorities Subcommittee, researching and conducting consultations on the development of the organization’s human rights priorities and campaigns. Her passion for human rights is supplemented with a focus on international security, spending a summer working as an Oslo Scholar with Global Goals Advocate and UN High-Level Commissioner Dr. Alaa Murabit on the intersections of health, security, gender. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026395288-YI5T8OYNJ7DR2R2TGQ94/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - The Eternally Inflating Multiverse Delia Perlov’s research interests are focused on the eternally inflating multiverse and touch on various aspects of cosmology, string theory, quantum field theory and general relativity. She got her MSC and Ph.D. from Tufts University and then spent several years working as a postdoctoral fellow, also at Tufts, where she now lectures on a part-time basis. Her first book, “ Cosmology for the Curious” (co-authored with Alex Vilenkin, 2017) aims to bring anyone with a cosmological sense of wonder and a facility with high school algebra up to date with modern cosmology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026609182-IUGWHC3WYOV3Y36SCB5T/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Hi I'm Ea: A Story of Transitions Ea Domke is a Boston based artist, Post Graduate Teaching Fellow, alumna, and transgender activist. She earned a Master of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in May of 2017. Some of Ea’s recent accomplishments include; a Post Graduate Teaching Fellowship, the Katherine Romero Graduating Student Award, and the Dean’s Scholarship Award for the academic year in 2015 and 2016. Her artistic practice explores; gender issues, transgender identity, the transgender body, often beginning with her own, the processes of transition, internalized emotional distress caused by social trauma, the negative physical manifestations caused by repeated traumas, and the triumph and joy of the transgender spirit.Her art projects deal with transgender identity, the transwoman’s body, which is her body, transition, internalized emotional distress caused by social trauma, the negative physical manifestations caused by repeated traumas, and the triumph and joy of the transgender spirit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026620383-UVY62FEZVTTYQUJ5YU7M/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - No Heroes, Not Villains, Just Humans Jonathan Gillis is a master’s candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He previously spent four years in the United States Marine Corps as a machine gunner and combined anti-armor team (CAAT) section leader. After leaving the Marines last summer, he began to notice that many people, especially in cities, have very little interaction with the military. The public understanding of veterans is largely informed by movies and news articles, many of which tend to fit military personnel into the role of hero, villain, or victim. Those characterizations are not accurate, but they can have a major impact on how we interact with veterans, and even how we approach defense policy. His talk is about the true, human side of the armed forces. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026500692-SA8RZE5TKHW9IT8E5NST/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Designing Communication: Moving Beyond Habit Katie Hyten works as the Director of Program Operations at Essential Partners, training groups in effective communication across differences, facilitating conversations in communities as they navigate difficult moments, and supporting internal operations and evaluation within the organization. Outside of Essential Partners, she is a mediator and an independent consultant in conflict resolution processes focused on teaching negotiation, facilitating groups, and coaching mediators. She wants to encourage people to think intentionally about the way they set up conversations in their school, work, and home lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026655073-5PYSA5GC6RXFH3YGTLOV/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - How To Read A Book Mary Travers graduated from Tufts in 2018 and studied Art History and French. She is curious about understanding history through the stories of individual interactions— both between objects and people. Mary also played on the varsity field hockey team and was the co-president of the Protestant Student Association. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026717961-ALKE8Z88DISNI3GHQL13/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Texting Hope: Using Big Data to Text and Learn Megan Zella Rounseville is a PhD student at The Fletcher School at Tufts University studying Development Economics and Impact Evaluation. She also works as an Economist for the World Bank designing and implementing impact evaluations in Latin America. Her current research applies econometrics to the study of poverty and inequality, child nutrition, adolescent sexual and reproductive health, access to justice, aspirations, and behavioral economics. Megan has over ten years of development work experience from the grassroots level as a Peace Corps volunteer on the Haitian-Dominican border to policy and research advising in Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026742282-Z9DNXUBUSOJU0LY4Q4PD/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - Neuromarketing: Knowing Why You Buy Sam Usher studied Engineering Psychology at Tufts University. He is specifically interested in Neuromarketing and Consumer Psychology. His interest in Neuromarketing developed after working at Nielsen Consumer Neuroscience, a Neuromarketing company that uses a variety of neuroscience technologies to analyze the effectiveness of advertising, packaging, in-store elements, and more. Sam believes that advertising and marketing affect us every single day, and he thinks it’s important to be aware of the psychology and neuroscience that is being used to target consumers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1548026774008-NR3ZRS7Z90EE1RRTJBVF/image-asset.jpeg Re:vision Gallery - When Cyber Prevents Security Winnona DeSombre is an alumnus (A'18) who studied Computer Science and International Security at Tufts University. Her passion is in cybersecurity : aside from having been a teaching assistant for the Computer Security course at Tufts, she also works for threat intelligence startup Recorded Future. Her talk illustrates the importance of the cybersecurity in our world today. https://www.tedxtufts.org/2019-mosaic-in-motion daily 0.75 2020-07-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575420161059-IIVN1S2S4179G44V6C2R/image.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575403073381-WHDEQBRH0PQQ5OL2Y3M9/image-asset.jpeg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - The Spirit of Breakin' | Taylor Lomba Taylor currently teaches a course at Tufts University on the original hip-hop dance: b-boying / b-girling / breakin'. He is excited to bring together ideas of movement and philosophy on the TEDxTufts stage! In 2015, Taylor completed his Bachelor's at Brown University with a dual-concentration in economics and philosophy. Known in the hip-hop community by the name "RTHYM", Taylor has been dancing for over a decade and represents his crew, Swift Charakterz, and travels across North America to test his skills in different local dance scenes. He experiences hip-hop as a way to comprehend the self, communicate honestly with others, and develop a sense of family / community. He aims to share his inspiration by teaching, battling, DJing, and organizing community events. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/5c7306a4a4222fd1125fd58f/5c7309a1652dea4b79827058/1551043589589/ Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Taylor Lomba Taylor currently teaches a course at Tufts University on the original hip-hop dance: b-boying / b-girling / breakin'. He is excited to bring together ideas of movement and philosophy on the TEDxTufts stage! In 2015, Taylor completed his Bachelor's at Brown University with a dual-concentration in economics and philosophy. Known in the hip-hop community by the name "RTHYM", Taylor has been dancing for over a decade and represents his crew, Swift Charakterz, and travels across North America to test his skills in different local dance scenes. He experiences hip-hop as a way to comprehend the self, communicate honestly with others, and develop a sense of family / community. He aims to share his inspiration by teaching, battling, DJing, and organizing community events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043770137-YBYU0A6PSMKGHQARZZD3/VasanthSarathy.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Vasanth Sarathy As dual Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Tufts University, Vasanth is excited to bring his ideas on everyday creativity and the future of Artificial Intelligence to this year’s TEDxTufts stage! Vasanth’s research is in Artificial Intelligence and explores the computational principles behind creative problem-solving and common sense reasoning at the Human-Robot Interaction Lab. He previously received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Prior to coming to Tufts, he was a lawyer and practiced Intellectual Property law for nearly a decade at Ropes & Gray in Boston. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043394664-7H0WIAUHPPTLM4NL9BTU/RobertClayman.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Robert Clayman Robert Clayman is a 1975 graduate of Tufts. Over the past eight years he has been a tutor with Reading Partners, a national non-profit organization committed to ensuring that all children in kindergarten through fourth grade are proficient readers. As both a tutor and a member of the Board of Reading Partners D.C., he has become increasingly aware of the poor state of literacy among elementary school students and the vital importance of reading to a child’s well-being. Robert is looking forward to speaking about on Illiteracy at this year’s TEDxTufts event. At Tufts, Robert led the Lecture Series bringing speakers of note to campus like Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, I.F. Stone and Robin Morgan. Though not nearly as prominent as these individuals, he feels that almost 45 years later the shoe is on the other foot: not choosing the speaker, but being one. After graduating from Tufts, Robert attended Emory University School of Law, and began a forty year career representing labor unions and workers ranging from migrant farmworkers to flight attendants. Robert retired from the practice of law at the beginning of 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043613452-8T8LRVSV8WWJC0AC1HOC/LaraDurgavitch.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Lara Durgavich As a Tufts alumni and current lecturer in the Anthropology department at Tufts, Lara is looking forward to talking about evolutionary medicine at the upcoming TEDxTufts conference! Lara has a PhD in Biological Anthropology from Boston University, where she studied orangutan reproductive hormones and behaviors. She was previously a lecturer in the Human Evolutionary Biology department at Harvard, where she developed and taught classes on topics including evolutionary medicine, human and primate reproduction, and science communication. Lara lives in Reading, MA with her husband and two children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043630689-A2TNYTV41S231CQ2HNWD/MatthewStewart.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Matthew Stewart Matthew Stewart is a senior at Tufts studying political science. He is excited to share his ideas about serious jokes, or the intersection of politics and comedy, at this year’s TEDxTufts event. Matt studies on the effects or consumption of satirical news, in addition to performing in comedy at Tufts. A member of The Institute sketch comedy group, he also performs stand up and is a part of 180 Consulting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043693621-U8RX5G0AKRTIDPYB6X5L/AaronWeinstein.png Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Aaron Weinstein Aaron Weinstein is a visiting assistant professor of politics at Fairfield University. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016, and has also taught a Salve Regina and Tufts universities. His research focuses upon the American civil religion (the symbols, beliefs, and rituals that attach Americans to the nation), and his scholarship has appeared in American Political Thought and the Journal of Religion and Society. He has also contributed to The Providence Journal and Starting Points Memo, a journal from the Kinder Institute. He lives in Providence, R.I. with his wife, Jessica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043720427-F4E5FV9YYICHKHR3MCTC/AkshobhGiridhardas.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Akshobh Giridharadas A journalist by profession, Akshobh Giridharadas was based out of Singapore as a reporter and producer with Channel News Asia, Singapore covering international business news. He writes on diverse topics such as geopolitics, business, tech and sports. His previous endeavours include working at ESPN STAR and FOX networks. He is a TEDx and Toastmasters public speaker and is currently at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts specialising in international affairs. https://www.orfonline.org/contributors/akshobh-giridharadas/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1551043738094-5IG8LVECR1UY6DEECFZ4/AnnieBricker.jpg Mosaic in Motion Gallery - Annie Bricker Annie is a senior at Tufts majoring in Environmental Studies and Sociology. When she’s not studying, she can be found playing frisbee with the women’s ultimate team or giving tours on campus. She is also a volunteer for Groundwork Somerville where she takes care of local elementary school gardens. Annie’s home is in Tacoma, Washington where she loves to kayak in the Puget Sound and go hiking with her dog. She is incredibly excited to give her TEDxTufts Talk on farming and sustainable agriculture. https://www.tedxtufts.org/new-gallery daily 0.75 2020-02-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858252191-IE3O24YB4I6EL11TXNIS/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - Rediscovering Civil Religion in America | Aaron Weinstein Aaron Weinstein is a visiting assistant professor of politics at Fairfield University. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016, and has also taught a Salve Regina and Tufts universities. His research focuses upon the American civil religion (the symbols, beliefs, and rituals that attach Americans to the nation), and his scholarship has appeared in American Political Thought and the Journal of Religion and Society. He has also contributed to The Providence Journal and Starting Points Memo, a journal from the Kinder Institute. He lives in Providence, R.I. with his wife, Jessica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858252191-IE3O24YB4I6EL11TXNIS/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - Rediscovering Civil Religion in America | Aaron Weinstein Aaron Weinstein is a visiting assistant professor of politics at Fairfield University. He received his Ph.D. from Brown University in 2016, and has also taught a Salve Regina and Tufts universities. His research focuses upon the American civil religion (the symbols, beliefs, and rituals that attach Americans to the nation), and his scholarship has appeared in American Political Thought and the Journal of Religion and Society. He has also contributed to The Providence Journal and Starting Points Memo, a journal from the Kinder Institute. He lives in Providence, R.I. with his wife, Jessica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575850338906-2499V0U7Z6V39EJ6Z96Q/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - Idea of a Nation State: What Makes a Country? | Akshobh Giridharadas A journalist by profession, Akshobh Giridharadas was based out of Singapore as a reporter and producer with Channel News Asia, Singapore covering international business news. He writes on diverse topics such as geopolitics, business, tech and sports. His previous endeavours include working at ESPN STAR and FOX networks. He is a TEDx and Toastmasters public speaker and is currently at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts specialising in international affairs. https://www.orfonline.org/contributors/akshobh-giridharadas/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858299855-KIFQLEP8UEVAM0W52FZ8/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - How Would You Survive The Zombie Apocalypse? | Annie Bricker Annie is a senior at Tufts majoring in Environmental Studies and Sociology. When she’s not studying, she can be found playing frisbee with the women’s ultimate team or giving tours on campus. She is also a volunteer for Groundwork Somerville where she takes care of local elementary school gardens. Annie’s home is in Tacoma, Washington where she loves to kayak in the Puget Sound and go hiking with her dog. She is incredibly excited to give her TEDxTufts Talk on farming and sustainable agriculture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858187558-66OKAI8FDE261DXFTFJM/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - Why My Parents Are Glad I Married a Goy: Tale of Evolutionary Medicine | Lara Durgavich As a Tufts alumni and current lecturer in the Anthropology department at Tufts, Lara is looking forward to talking about evolutionary medicine at the upcoming TEDxTufts conference! Lara has a PhD in Biological Anthropology from Boston University, where she studied orangutan reproductive hormones and behaviors. She was previously a lecturer in the Human Evolutionary Biology department at Harvard, where she developed and taught classes on topics including evolutionary medicine, human and primate reproduction, and science communication. Lara lives in Reading, MA with her husband and two children. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575850249605-BUOE8QEHW5SO6E511TPY/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - Can Laughter Divide a Nation? | Matthew Stewart Matthew Stewart is a senior at Tufts studying political science. He is excited to share his ideas about serious jokes, or the intersection of politics and comedy, at this year’s TEDxTufts event. Matt studies on the effects or consumption of satirical news, in addition to performing in comedy at Tufts. A member of The Institute sketch comedy group, he also performs stand up and is a part of 180 Consulting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858089463-80P8FHVJKT37TPYYF8TP/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - How to Respond to the Literacy Crisis | Robert Clayman Robert Clayman is a 1975 graduate of Tufts. Over the past eight years he has been a tutor with Reading Partners, a national non-profit organization committed to ensuring that all children in kindergarten through fourth grade are proficient readers. As both a tutor and a member of the Board of Reading Partners D.C., he has become increasingly aware of the poor state of literacy among elementary school students and the vital importance of reading to a child’s well-being. Robert is looking forward to speaking about on Illiteracy at this year’s TEDxTufts event. At Tufts, Robert led the Lecture Series bringing speakers of note to campus like Tom Wolfe, Norman Mailer, I.F. Stone and Robin Morgan. Though not nearly as prominent as these individuals, he feels that almost 45 years later the shoe is on the other foot: not choosing the speaker, but being one. After graduating from Tufts, Robert attended Emory University School of Law, and began a forty year career representing labor unions and workers ranging from migrant farmworkers to flight attendants. Robert retired from the practice of law at the beginning of 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575850249591-ZHKMSN7A7CPDTWO5IDN5/image-asset.octet-stream 2019 Videos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575858006206-TD7GCVWHWFF52L7HMCI9/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - The Spirit of Breakin' | Taylor Lomba Taylor currently teaches a course at Tufts University on the original hip-hop dance: b-boying / b-girling / breakin'. He is excited to bring together ideas of movement and philosophy on the TEDxTufts stage! In 2015, Taylor completed his Bachelor's at Brown University with a dual-concentration in economics and philosophy. Known in the hip-hop community by the name "RTHYM", Taylor has been dancing for over a decade and represents his crew, Swift Charakterz, and travels across North America to test his skills in different local dance scenes. He experiences hip-hop as a way to comprehend the self, communicate honestly with others, and develop a sense of family / community. He aims to share his inspiration by teaching, battling, DJing, and organizing community events. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1575850305369-XSLE8CHRDMVX3BYO45SZ/image-asset.jpeg 2019 Videos - MacGyver Machines | Vasanth Sarathy As dual Ph.D. student in Computer Science and Cognitive Science at Tufts University, Vasanth is excited to bring his ideas on everyday creativity and the future of Artificial Intelligence to this year’s TEDxTufts stage! Vasanth’s research is in Artificial Intelligence and explores the computational principles behind creative problem-solving and common sense reasoning at the Human-Robot Interaction Lab. He previously received an M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and a J.D. from Boston University School of Law. Prior to coming to Tufts, he was a lawyer and practiced Intellectual Property law for nearly a decade at Ropes & Gray in Boston. https://www.tedxtufts.org/double-take-gallery daily 0.75 2022-03-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906588992-7F0J3QYFNSIWMXK3JO3Q/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Data Without Damage | Alyssa Rose As our lives become inseparable from the digital trails we leave behind, our privacy is increasingly at the mercy of those who control our data. By comparing this digital Dark Age to the field of medicine, data scientist Alyssa Rose examines the human impact of data collection, and proposes a Hippocratic Oath for data scientists. As a junior at Tufts studying data science and mathematics, Alyssa (she/her/hers) is thrilled to talk about her ideas on using data science for radical positive social change on this year’s TEDx stage. She spends most of her free time working on projects through the Tufts’ Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) chapter, leading a data science group, and working for the Smithsonian’s Culture Heritage Rescue Initiative as a data science intern developing databases and a visualization website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906588992-7F0J3QYFNSIWMXK3JO3Q/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Data Without Damage | Alyssa Rose As our lives become inseparable from the digital trails we leave behind, our privacy is increasingly at the mercy of those who control our data. By comparing this digital Dark Age to the field of medicine, data scientist Alyssa Rose examines the human impact of data collection, and proposes a Hippocratic Oath for data scientists. As a junior at Tufts studying data science and mathematics, Alyssa (she/her/hers) is thrilled to talk about her ideas on using data science for radical positive social change on this year’s TEDx stage. She spends most of her free time working on projects through the Tufts’ Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) chapter, leading a data science group, and working for the Smithsonian’s Culture Heritage Rescue Initiative as a data science intern developing databases and a visualization website. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906689255-5AWLCDD9IHYZQSDPH3YW/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - How To Write A Symphony | Andrew Seligson In this TEDx talk, Andrew Seligson discusses the life-changing experience of writing his first symphony. He details how the process of writing music and storytelling helps modern composers to create a space for catharsis and personal growth. Andrew Seligson (he/him/his) is a 1st year MALD student at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. Before joining the Tufts community, he worked in humanitarian response to the Syrian crisis in Jordan, as well as at the United Nations in New York. Andrew is also an avid composer and guitarist, having written and produced three operas, a symphony about Lord of the Rings, and numerous pieces for chamber ensembles. As a guitarist, he has performed in master classes with Tommy Emmanuel, John Knowles, and Guthrie Govan. Most recently, he produced and performed an original opera at the Juilliard School of Music. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589905941960-ZQHW230SPLAZX4Y6HFJA/image-asset.png Double Take Gallery - The theater of gender play | Jo Michael Rezes | TEDxTufts Does watching someone fall apart on stage give you secondhand embarrassment? Do you think you have stage fright? Are you nervous to to perform your gender on a daily basis? “Gender Rehearsativity” discusses the expansive, freeing, and experimental ways that playing with gender in theatrical rehearsal and acting classrooms can be applied to our everyday lives. Pulling from their own experiences as a nonbinary theatre educator, professional actor, and director, Rezes even riffs on the TEDxTalk form with a new take on a classic half-and-half performance style. Jo (they/them/theirs) is a second year M.A./Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University currently writing an auto-ethnographic thesis which explores queer time ruptures and the disintegration of bodies in Camp performance spaces. Since beginning their career as a theatremaker at Vassar College, Jo has worked to disrupt the gender binary on and off the stage as an actor, director, and educator in the Greater Boston Area. Most recently, they’ve had the irreverent joys of playing Dr. Frank N. Furter in Entropy Theatre Company’s New England Tour of The Rocky Horror Show, assistant directing The Nora Theatre Company’s Cloud 9, teaching workshops on gender-bending at Somerville Arts for Youth, and instructing Introduction to Acting in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906825210-AO13P2BNWP4P9R4FNWG9/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Let's Unpack Our Fear of Fatness | Athena Nair Athena Nair speaks about fatphobia, diet culture, and body positivity in her TEDx Talk. She draws from her own personal experiences and her work with The Body Positive to explore the pervasiveness of fatphobia in our lives. She unpacks the history of the BMI, discrimination against fat folks in the medical industry and beyond, and offers a first step to opt out of diet culture: radical self-love. For more resources, information, and more of Athena's thoughts on these topics, visit her blog and website here: https://19anair.wixsite.com/beingbodypositive Athena (she/her/hers) is a freshman at Tufts, coming from the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been passionate about social activism for as long as she can remember. In addition to focusing on racial, gender, sexual orientation, and class identities, Athena devotes herself to body positivity and body liberation. The body positive and body liberation movement is dedicated to dismantling the fatphobic diet culture that we find ourselves entrenched in–a culture that allows us to ignore and marginalize certain kinds of bodies. Athena aims to serve as a body positive role model, and to spread awareness about the intersectionality of body oppression. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906927206-VN3D4FXPBVXHOFD2S82N/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Is Your Face Really Your Own? | Ben Ballard | TEDxTufts With each passing year, more and more of our information is being collected without our knowledge. In this talk, Ben Ballard shares how even the most intimate data about your body is no longer under your control, and how it might be used in ways you might not like. Ben Ballard (he/him/his) is a second-year MALD with a focus on International Information & Communication, and Development. He is currently conducting work in ICT4D, International digital privacy and security, and digital governance. His work with the Electronic Frontier Foundation as a Google Public Policy Fellow covered digital surveillance, online censorship, data privacy, and cross-border data flows. This summer he will be joining The Citizen Lab as a Cybersecurity Fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907009367-X05Q3TFSIDE61G46GW8R/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - The Tale of an Idea: Deciphering Data with Fiction and Technology | Devang Shah | TEDxTufts After exploring different storytelling mediums in 5 countries, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy student Devang Shah unveils his latest original creation on the stage of TEDxTufts. His talk explores the best way to capture audiences and spark change in both the fictional and non-fictional worlds and the blurring lines between them. For the first time ever, he uses Geographic Information System (GIS) to tell the tale of an idea and deciphers reality with creative storytelling. Devang’s (he/him/his) penchant for exploring different mediums of storytelling led him to begin his career as journalist and documentary filmmaker for the Kashmir Observer. He then worked as broadcast journalist in Ghana for a national media house called Metro TV. He is most proud of producing a first-of-its-kind report on the LGBTQ+ community of Ghana, which was broadcasted nationally. He has also served at the Parliamentary Monitoring Group, as a Monitor for the Parliament of South Africa, Cape Town. In his time at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, he has taken a deep dive into international policies and innovative mediums to explore them. He spent the first half of his summer on a fellowship with the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Ethiopia and the second half working for Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmakers at Transform Films in NYC. He is excited to share his latest project, which uses geospatial technology to bring these worlds closer than ever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907105349-JBEB31HWRNWEUD13ZMM7/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - The Unseen Toll of Childhood Adversity | Jose Avila This talk is about the constant struggles many children face due to social disparities. Jose Avila draws on his childhood experiences to reflect on how constant stress has both psychological and physiological health effects that negatively impact children for life, and offers a key solution: mentorship. Through mentorship, we can help lessen these effects by offering support, advice, and resources. Jose (he/him/his) is a senior at Tufts studying Biology and Child Studies & Human Development. He has been passionate about changing the lives of children ever since he became the older brother and essentially third parent to his two brothers, Jovannie and Angel. While at Tufts he has combined his passions for children and health by volunteering as a Team Leader for Jumpstart at Tufts and working as an EMT at Cataldo Ambulance Services near campus. Jose wants to share his experiences with you and how it led him to his passion for change. He is extremely excited to talk to you about the health effects of social disparities in early childhood and how we can all contribute towards change through the education system! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907172204-C0VE0A61IZH5TY67EKCW/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - How to be an Auntie | LaWhore Vagistan In "How to be an Auntie" drag queen LaWhore Vagistan describes how she learned the art of auntie-ing from the South Asian women that raised her, from popular and political figures like Anita Yavitch and Maxine Waters, from feminist scholars and artists, and from LGBT elders that offer mentorship and care across generations. She shows how the figure of the auntie is often stereotyped as overbearing, unfashionable, and frankly exhausting, but that the very traits that make aunties so irritating are actually valuable to social change and public good. LaWhore Vagistan/Kareem Khubchandani (all pronouns) is the Mellon Bridge assistant professor in the department of theatre, dance, and performance studies, and the program in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies at Tufts University. He is developing several book projects include: Ishtyle: Accenting Gay Indian Nightlife; Decolonize Drag!; Queer Nightlife (co-edited with Kemi Adeyemi and Ramón Rivera-Servera); and Auntologies: Queer Aesthetics and South Asian Aunties. LaWhore Vagistan/Kareem is also a performance artist working in drag, storytelling, body art, theater, and digital media. He holds a Ph.D. in performance studies from Northwestern University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907239120-XJXNS9EYGVIP5HOXIGA3/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Me(me) | Lily Pisano This talk explores some of the many means through which we communicate with each other, both visual and otherwise. Lily Pisano uses the format of memes, both online and off, as a lens to investigate notions of relatability, collective and individual consciousness, and identity. Drawing on her own experience of becoming a viral meme, Pisano asks us to reflect on and rethink the ways we create meaning in the world around us. Lily Pisano (she/her/hers) is a fourth-year student in the five-year Combined Degree Program. Her main studies at Tufts are Japanese (she spent last year abroad at Kanazawa University) and Gender/Sexuality Studies; at SMFA, her BFA is focused on welding, fiber arts, and painting. As a freshman, Lily was a co-founder and is currently an editor of Currents magazine, an arts-focused publication exhibiting the artwork of both Medford and Fenway artists (@currentsmag). She is a Creative, a Maker, and the source of a viral Internet meme based on a picture taken of her as a child. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589906337785-Q41EE5540STTJKGHRZN5/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - The theater of gender play | Jo Michael Rezes Does watching someone fall apart on stage give you secondhand embarrassment? Do you think you have stage fright? Are you nervous to to perform your gender on a daily basis? “Gender Rehearsativity” discusses the expansive, freeing, and experimental ways that playing with gender in theatrical rehearsal and acting classrooms can be applied to our everyday lives. Pulling from their own experiences as a nonbinary theatre educator, professional actor, and director, Rezes even riffs on the TEDxTalk form with a new take on a classic half-and-half performance style. Jo (they/them/theirs) is a second year M.A./Ph.D. student in Theatre and Performance Studies at Tufts University currently writing an auto-ethnographic thesis which explores queer time ruptures and the disintegration of bodies in Camp performance spaces. Since beginning their career as a theatremaker at Vassar College, Jo has worked to disrupt the gender binary on and off the stage as an actor, director, and educator in the Greater Boston Area. Most recently, they’ve had the irreverent joys of playing Dr. Frank N. Furter in Entropy Theatre Company’s New England Tour of The Rocky Horror Show, assistant directing The Nora Theatre Company’s Cloud 9, teaching workshops on gender-bending at Somerville Arts for Youth, and instructing Introduction to Acting in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907310450-AC12FZVQDTL7KFZ7DJKG/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - Reconciling Art and Science | Madeline Weir How would the world change if artists and scientists more frequently exchanged ideas and created in collaboration? Madeline Weir reflects on her time at Arts at CERN, an artist-in-residency program at the European Center for Nuclear Research. By sharing an inside view of the way artists and scientists can work together and spark creative ideas, her talk highlights the value of interdisciplinary exchanges. Madeline Weir (she/her/hers) is a senior double majoring in International Relations - Economics, and Film & Media studies. She’s excited to discuss the collision of art and science and to talk about how we need to embrace interdisciplinary collaborations. This past summer, she worked at CERN, the European Center for Nuclear and Particle Physics Research. Her work there was to see how their artists-in-residence and scientists engage with one another and inspire each other’s work. Currently, she is working for NOVA with PBS-WGBH producing documentary-style media for scientific communication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907394847-WV5TYRPJR3G88UIMMCL7/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - The Power of the Powerless | Samantha Karlin Global crises and revolutions are demanding a new type of leader. The traditional style of command and control leadership - a heavily masculine one- has caused disastrous consequences, whereas a more empathetic, inclusive form of leadership - a more feminine one- has thrived. Using case studies from the climate movement, the Armenian revolution, and the Chilean protests, this talk introduces a new way to practice power and makes the case for women to lead. Samantha Karlin (she/her/hers) is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Empower Global. She consults organizations on how to better recruit, retain, and advance women, create male allies, and foster inclusive environments that enable people from all backgrounds to thrive. She is currently also advising on Apollo, a community building app for men. Her background spans the public and private sectors, from tech to politics to foreign affairs. Her most recent role was the Director of Global Community at a venture backed tech startup in Silicon Valley, CommonGenius. Before that, Ms. Karlin was the Director of Global Engagement & Gender Equality at Ashoka, where she focused on accelerating Ashoka’s female entrepreneurs. Ms. Karlin speaks around the world and does workshops around gender issues. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1589907524467-NJDMA4C3B3W2GQGG5N61/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - How to advocate for captive wildlife | Tyler-Jane Robins TJ discusses her internship at Fauna Foundation, the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Canada, where she witnessed the lasting impact of captivity and abuse on former pet, performer, and research chimps. She connects the experiences of the Fauna chimps to those of captive wildlife in general who are frequently commodified — and mistreated — for the sake of human entertainment, and she stresses the importance of engaging responsibly with wildlife in-person and online. TJ Robins (she/her/hers) is a Tufts senior double-majoring in biology and anthropology. Next year, she’ll be attending the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine where she plans on studying zoological/conservation medicine. TJ is really excited to discuss her experience interning at a chimpanzee sanctuary where she was able to care for and study chimps retired from cross-fostering research, biomedical research, and zoos. In working with the chimps, TJ became increasingly aware of the ethical problems associated with keeping and/or interacting with captive primates and captive animals in general. She’s inspired to give a TEDx talk on the ethics of “captive wild animal encounters” to spread awareness about the issue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1646687631945-IFB1N5WIAAB57K6HZNVS/image-asset.jpeg Double Take Gallery - The Muse of Alzheimer's: Turning "Tragedy" Into Art | Joel Frenzer Utilizing his background in animation and performance, Joel Frenzer has developed a body of work that encompasses independent short films, puppetry, character voice acting, novelty song writing, looped animated vignettes, event MC-ing, and comedy podcasting. His work has been featured in international festivals such as South By Southwest, the Ottawa International Animation Fest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival. Joel is a full-time Professor of the Practice in Media Arts at SMFA at Tufts. He is currently working on a touring lecture series for Nonnie, Raccoon, and Bear, and a new web series about mental and environmental health. Nonnie, Raccoon, & Bear; the story of + web series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul7H6... Utilizing his background in animation and performance, Joel Frenzer has developed a body of work that encompasses independent short films, puppetry, character voice acting, novelty song writing, looped animated vignettes, event MC-ing, and comedy podcasting. His work has been featured in international festivals such as South By Southwest, the Ottawa International Animation Fest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival. Joel is a fulltime Professor of the Practice in Media Arts at SMFA at Tufts. He is currently working on a touring lecture series for Nonnie, Raccoon, and Bear, and a new web series about mental and environmental health. 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In his talk, Nick Rabb answers that question by highlighting parallels between the pattern of misinformation and the spread of a contagious virus. He draws from his well of academic expertise and his own research to shed light on the tactics used in disinformation campaigns, unpack why misinformation is persuasive, and how we can protect ourselves from it. As the danger of misinformation becomes far more prevalent, Nick demonstrates how simply being aware of specific elements of propaganda can render us immune to its malicious effects. Nick Rabb is a PhD student at Tufts University pursuing a dual-degree in computer science and cognitive science. He is originally from Rochester, NY, where he received a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent research has investigated how beliefs spread through populations, especially pertaining to COVID-19 mis/disinformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666544911958-OILKN8LTBIRA3XVFHUE2/image-asset.jpg Reboot Gallery - Can You Tell You're Being Manipulated? | Nick Rabb Are we being manipulated? In his talk, Nick Rabb answers that question by highlighting parallels between the pattern of misinformation and the spread of a contagious virus. He draws from his well of academic expertise and his own research to shed light on the tactics used in disinformation campaigns, unpack why misinformation is persuasive, and how we can protect ourselves from it. As the danger of misinformation becomes far more prevalent, Nick demonstrates how simply being aware of specific elements of propaganda can render us immune to its malicious effects. Nick Rabb is a PhD student at Tufts University pursuing a dual-degree in computer science and cognitive science. He is originally from Rochester, NY, where he received a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. His most recent research has investigated how beliefs spread through populations, especially pertaining to COVID-19 mis/disinformation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638416987375-GANQY07Y4YDW9VJ7DKJJ/image-asset.octet-stream Reboot Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417046928-TO0D49C08EHLC1KAB3HR/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Shaping the World Through Children's Television | Claire Liu In her talk, Claire explores the impact of intentional diversity in her childhood and how it has shaped her experience working in the film and media industry. Claire Liu (she/her/hers) is a senior at Tufts double majoring in Child Study & Human Development and Classics, with a minor in Entrepreneurship. She’s excited to talk about diversity in children’s media and how it can build empathy, especially as we are in the midst of a racial reckoning. Currently, Claire works at GBH for the children’s department where she assists with the production of shows Arthur, Molly of Denali (the first nationally distributed children’s series with an Indigenous heroine!), and Pinkalicious and Peterrific. Her senior thesis and GBH project dives into how producers of children’s television go about intentionally and respectfully represent BIPOC groups through their shows and peripherals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417139836-96LIR3631POPK6IN1JOM/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Are We Getting Dummer? | Jeff Stibel Why are our brains shrinking? In answering that question, Jeff Stibel shares the story of how an offhand question from his friend and mentor Kobe Bryant turned into one of his most formative research experiences. In his talk, Jeff shares the lessons he learned along his journey about approaching tough challenges, finding resilience, and about what it means to truly be a mentor. Jeff Stibel is a founding partner of Bryant Stibel and serves on the boards of the Consortium for Brain and Cognitive Sciences at Tufts University and the Natural History Museum. He has served on the boards of a number of non-profit, private, and public companies. Stibel was previously President & CEO of Web.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: WWWW) and The Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corporation, and later served as D&B’s (NYSE: DNB) Vice Chairman. Stibel is a USA Today columnist and author of The New York Times bestseller “Breakpoint” and “Wired for Thought.” Stibel received his undergraduate degree in psychology, philosophy, and cognitive science from Tufts University, and his graduate degree from Brown University, where he was the recipient of a Brain and Behavior Fellowship while studying for a PhD. Stibel also spent time as a visiting fellow at MIT and received an honorary doctorate from Pepperdine University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417209992-PX8C4UVYNMQBAW0H4D5X/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Why Small Business Needs an Insurgency | Justin Will How can small businesses succeed in a world dominated by gigantic corporations? To Justin Will, the answer is simple - small businesses can succeed if they learn to act as insurgents. In his talk, Justin combines his experience as a military veteran, an entrepreneur, and a business owner to shed new light on why small businesses are suffering, and how an unlikely change of mindset may help them find success. Justin is a Navy veteran and small business entrepreneur who relocated to Vermont in March with his wife Elise, and their newborn baby, Isabelle. Justin has degrees from Albion College, the University of Trieste and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His professional interests are far-ranging and often international, but this year he has been focusing on rural economic development in Vermont, as well as growing his coffee business, Inspired Coffee Merchants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417435621-GIRR3QBVPZGV37GVLZYU/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Have You Tried Restarting it? Rebooting Diversity in the Tech Industry | Supriya Sanjay As the tech industry rapidly expands, Supriya Sanjay discusses how the diversity of the individuals working within the industry is a key factor to sustaining that growth. Supriya Sanjay graduated from Tufts in 2019, where she earned a double major in Computer Science and Cognitive Brain Science. In her senior year at Tufts, she co-chaired the Tufts’ Second Annual Women in Tech Conference and served as a Teaching Fellow for Data Structure and Algorithms. Supriya pursued an honors thesis that investigated gender bias in STEM on an international scale, with funding from the Tufts Institute of Global Leadership. Supriya was also a proud member and music director of Tufts' freshest all-gender A Capella group, Tufts sQ! Supriya currently is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Robotics, where she works on a large-scale machine learning system. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417510985-PNO9BVR7XSR3S2W8QWRR/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Leaving Punishment Behind: Embracing New Ideas of Justice | Aparna Polavarapu What does it mean to have a truly just society, and how do we achieve justice? Aparna Polavarapu believes that this is possible,however, the first step is to move away from the idea of punishment as a form of justice. In her talk, Aparna urges listeners to rethink what justice really means. Aparna Polavarapu is a law professor at the University of South Carolina as well as the Executive Director and Founder of the South Carolina Restorative Justice Initiative (SCRJI). She has significant scholarly expertise in the field of legal pluralism, with a particular research focus on non-state justice systems and how they work together with formal, state-centered systems. As the Executive Director of SCRJI, she oversees the development of restorative justice education and programming and works with organizations seeking to develop and implement their own restorative practices. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417637108-AF41IBGWR6UK6CGDOBMV/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Patriarchy and Its Pillars: How We Can Crumble the System | Kudrat Chaudhary Kudrat does not wait for the future to be female. In her talk, Kudrat explores the supporting pillars of patriarchal power, and demonstrates that the system is not exclusively upheld by men. Drawing from her experience and expertise as an international lawyer, Kudrat unpacks the system of control that women are indoctrinated to, as well as how to overcome them. Kudrat Dutta Chaudhary is an International Lawyer currently working in the field of Gender based violence asylum claims in San Francisco. She is an alumni of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and is the author of her debut novel, ‘Laiza: Sometimes the end is only a Beginning’ which deals with the surge in human trafficking of Nepali women from Nepal to India after the Nepal Earthquake of 2015. Kudrat also currently serves as the Community Engagement Lead for San Francisco’s Women’s March and is an Executive member of the Young Professionals Committee of Human Rights Watch, Bay Area. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1638417758381-0KFH2X2LOJ5Y96BQHT7I/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - The Mathematics of Oligarchy | Bruce Boghosian Is it possible to eradicate poverty and inequality? To Bruce Boghosian, creating a more equitable society is not only possible, it is provable. In his talk, Bruce unveils the origins, assumptions, and unsustainable trajectory of our current economic system. Drawing from a vast well of mathematical knowledge, he makes the case for why a new, radical system of wealth redistribution is not only mathematically sustainable, it is the key for creating a fundamentally more equitable society. Bruce Boghosian, PhD is a Professor of Mathematics at Tufts University, where he also co-directs the Data Analytics program and holds secondary appointments in Computer Science and Physics. He was elected to Fellowship in the American Physical Society in 2000, to foreign membership in the Armenian National Academy of Sciences in 2008, named a Distinguished Scholar of Tufts University in 2010, a Fellow of the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life in 2018, and a Fellow of the Tufts Data Intensive Studies Center in 2019. He served as chair of Mathematics at Tufts University from 2006 to 2010, and as President of the American University of Armenia from 2010 to 2014. He has held visiting positions at, inter alia, the Université de Paris-Sud in Orsay, the École Normale Supérieure de Paris, Peking University, and University College London. He is a member of the editorial boards of, inter alia, the Journal of Computational Science, and Physica A. His principal research interests are applied dynamical systems and probability theory, statistical mechanics, kinetic theory, fluid dynamics and turbulence, mathematical models of wealth distribution and inequality, quantum Monte Carlo, and quantum computation. He also maintains a strong interest in issues of international education, having served as the Vice President of the Association of American International Colleges and Universities (2013-2014), and as chair of Tufts University’s Subcommittee on Foreign Programs (2017-2018). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1639795464467-4TBSQ02FW2KXBB466PPU/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - Overcoming Imposter Syndrome: Storytellers, Sci-Fi, & Unreliable Mirrors | Don Schechter How do we overcome imposter syndrome? In his talk, Don Schechter draws from his varied experiences of learning on the fly to unpack how we can build our own image. From lessons in screenwriting to storytelling, he shows us that the most important factor of overcoming our own insecurities, doubts, and reservations is the power of our own narrative. Don Schechter is the Owner of Charles River Media Group, LLC, a Part-Time Professor of the Practice in the Film and Media Studies Program at Tufts University, and Creator of Ascendants. At Charles River Media Group, Don oversees all projects and has worked as a director, producer, and editor for television, film, and corporate endeavors. Ascendants is a multi-platform science fiction project that includes both a series of short films (The Ascendants Anthology) and novels. Don is currently a Part-Time Professor of the Practice at Tufts University from which he holds a Master’s Degree (Music Composition and Theory) and a Bachelor’s Degree (Media Arts and Technologies, Music.) He has taught classes including “Making Movies,” “Producing Films for Social Change,” and “The History of Documentary: From Nanook the Real World.” He currently teaches “Fundamentals of Film and Media Production” and “From Script to Screen.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1639795623958-KW8F7DU9Q3GLHOZGUQM7/image-asset.png Reboot Gallery - The Muse of Alzheimer's: Turning "Tragedy" into Art | Joel Frenzer Utilizing his background in animation and performance, Joel Frenzer has developed a body of work that encompasses independent short films, puppetry, character voice acting, novelty song writing, looped animated vignettes, event MC-ing, and comedy podcasting. His work has been featured in international festivals such as South By Southwest, the Ottawa International Animation Fest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival. Joel is a full-time Professor of the Practice in Media Arts at SMFA at Tufts. He is currently working on a touring lecture series for Nonnie, Raccoon, and Bear, and a new web series about mental and environmental health. Utilizing his background in animation and performance, Joel Frenzer has developed a body of work that encompasses independent short films, puppetry, character voice acting, novelty song writing, looped animated vignettes, event MC-ing, and comedy podcasting. His work has been featured in international festivals such as South By Southwest, the Ottawa International Animation Fest, and the Annecy International Animation Festival. Joel is a fulltime Professor of the Practice in Media Arts at SMFA at Tufts. He is currently working on a touring lecture series for Nonnie, Raccoon, and Bear, and a new web series about mental and environmental health. https://www.tedxtufts.org/new-index-1 daily 0.75 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666546043736-AMZW2F6D8N4OT5RCF2QP/Screen+Shot+2022-10-23+at+1.26.52+PM.png Undercurrents (2022) https://www.tedxtufts.org/new-gallery-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666544970029-PKIXJF5Y3ZV6435ES4V1/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Is This Justice? | Judge André Birotte Jr. Judge Birotte was appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. The son of Haitian immigrants, Judge Birotte graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1991 and Tufts University before that. Prior to his nomination to the federal bench, Judge Birotte served as the United States Attorney for the Central District for four years. During that time, he served on the U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, co-chairing its Terrorism/National Security Subcommittee and serving on its Border and Immigration Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Cyber/Intellectual Property, Violent and Organized Crime, and White Collar/Fraud Subcommittees. He was also a Co-Chair of the multi-agency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force’s Consumer Protection Working Group. Judge Birotte has also served as Inspector General of the Los Angeles Police Department, as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District, and as a Deputy Public Defender in Los Angeles County. He has also worked in private practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666544970029-PKIXJF5Y3ZV6435ES4V1/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Is This Justice? | Judge André Birotte Jr. Judge Birotte was appointed by President Obama and unanimously confirmed by the Senate in July 2014. The son of Haitian immigrants, Judge Birotte graduated from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1991 and Tufts University before that. Prior to his nomination to the federal bench, Judge Birotte served as the United States Attorney for the Central District for four years. During that time, he served on the U.S. Attorney General’s Advisory Committee, co-chairing its Terrorism/National Security Subcommittee and serving on its Border and Immigration Law Enforcement, Civil Rights, Cyber/Intellectual Property, Violent and Organized Crime, and White Collar/Fraud Subcommittees. He was also a Co-Chair of the multi-agency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force’s Consumer Protection Working Group. Judge Birotte has also served as Inspector General of the Los Angeles Police Department, as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Central District, and as a Deputy Public Defender in Los Angeles County. He has also worked in private practice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666544970009-UXXR6CMCX0S5AG6CWTUV/image-asset.octet-stream New Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545324344-F7Y6TZLBTSW3DVIRGV5C/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - A Philosophy of Kindness | Audrey Ledbetter Audrey is a senior at Tufts in the combined BA/MA degree program in Philosophy. She has conducted research on the intersection between feminist ethics and Chinese philosophy and done extensive coursework in moral theory. This work inspired her to think critically about kindness as a virtue and to design and teach a course on the subject for the Tufts Experimental College. Teaching proved to her the importance in philosophizing about kindness and she looks forward to sharing her ideas with the TEDxTufts community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545395372-IH7C4WGOIE4QTDC0PAXL/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Lessons About the West From Zimbabwe's Pandemic Response | Charming Dube Charming Dube grew up pinched between the regime of Robert Mugabe and the sanctions enacted by George W Bush on the Zimbabwean government. He is interested in the relationships between wealthy nations and international institutions on the one hand, and poorer countries on the other. This curiosity led him to two capstones at Tufts, his alma mater. The first examined the effect that bureaucratic rivalry between the International Monetary Fund and World Bank had on the country responses to AIDS in South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe, and the second considered the Zimbabwean response to COVID-19. In his free time, he enjoys reading biographies and is an avid player of the SimCity franchise. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545472377-H54HN5SSJ34S21PL2PFY/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Flights to Freedom - American Diplomacy and Human Rights | Mark Storella Mark is Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. A native of Medford, Mark has deep ties to Tufts, having graduated from both the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Eliot Pearson nursery school. Prior to joining BU, Mark spent over three decades in the United States Foreign Service, serving in posts as diverse as Ambassador to Zambia, humanitarian coordinator in Iraq, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for refugee affairs, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva and Dean of the State Department’s leadership school. Mark’s experience as a Fletcher student volunteer helping refugees resettle in Boston helped spur his lifelong commitment to human rights and humanitarian affairs. As a diplomat, Mark has worked to advance the full spectrum of American interests, from security to global health to promotion of American businesses. But his interest in human rights has also been a unifying theme of his work. Mark is dedicated to encouraging young people to pursue careers in foreign affairs and humanitarian action and believes the United States and the international community require effective and innovative diplomacy to address emerging global challenges. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666547155020-WV2ZOWTFIO02UT21QRIE/image.jpg New Gallery - How to Listen to Music Like a Stoic | Melinda Latour Melinda Latour is Rumsey Family Assistant Professor in the Humanities and Arts, and Assistant Professor of Musicology at Tufts University. A scholar of early music and contemporary popular music, Latour has recently finished her first monograph, The Voice of Virtue: Moral Song and the Practice of French Stoicism, 1574-1652, which is in production with Oxford University Press and slated for a 2022 release. She has also published an edited collection (co-edited with Robert Fink and Zachary Wallmark), The Relentless Pursuit of Tone: Timbre in Popular Music (Oxford University Press, 2018), which won the Ruth A. Solie Award from the American Musicological Society. Latour’s scholarship has appeared in Music and Letters (2021), the Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music (2018), the Revue de musicologie (2016), and the Journal of Musicology (2015). Her research has been supported by the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities. A native Californian, Latour earned a Ph.D. in Musicology from UCLA in 2016, an M.A. in Ethnomusicology from UC Riverside in 2009, and a B.A. from UC Berkeley in 2002. She has received a range of prestigious awards and fellowships, including an American Council of Learned Societes Fellowship (2019-20), a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (2018), and an ACLS/Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, held in residency at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours, France (2015-16). She is delighted to share her passion for the intersection of music and philosophy for the Tedx community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666547113574-7X0ST51B252AYU3EVAK3/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - The Healthcare System is Broken: Racism's Impact on Maternal Health | Ndidiamaka Amutah-Onukagha Dr. Amutah-Onukagha is the Julia A. Okoro Professor of Black Maternal Health in the Department of Public Health and Community Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Her current research interests include maternal health disparities, reproductive health and social justice, infant mortality and HIV/AIDS in Black women. Dr. Amutah-Onukagha also serves as the inaugural Assistant Dean of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Public Health and Professional Degree Programs. Ndidiamaka is the Principal Investigator of two multi-year studies on maternal mortality and morbidity, an R01 funded by National Institutes of Health and an interdisciplinary grant on health equity funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Additionally, she is a member of the MA-COVID 19 Maternal Equity Coalition and was honored with the American Public Health Association’s Maternal and Child Health Section’s Young Professional of the Year Award in 2019. She is in the 2020-2021 class of the top 40 under 40 Minority Leaders in Healthcare, an annual award given out by the National Minority Quality Forum. Ndidiamaka is a life-long member of the American Public Health Association and is currently the co-chair of the Perinatal and Women's Health committee in the Maternal and Child Health section. Finally, Dr. Amutah-Onukagha is the Founder and Director of the Maternal Outcomes for Translational Health Equity Research Lab, (MOTHER) a research lab comprised of 35 students from undergrad to postdoc with a keen interest in reducing maternal health disparities as experienced by Black women. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666547263431-IPJRXV67ZAD2NO0CPXAQ/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - We're Saving the Wrong Bees | Nicholas Dorian Nick Dorian is an ecologist, an educator, and a naturalist. He is a PhD student in Biology at Tufts University where he studies how solitary bees—those that don’t live in hives—cope with rapidly changing environments. Nick also co-founded and runs the Tufts Pollinator Initiative, which works to conserve urban pollinators through habitat creation, community & undergraduate education, and ecological research. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545524864-WUQDL6JSJYACNWNJYPTH/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Things I Think I Learnt Growing Up in an Atelier | Rastislav Janardan Rastislav Janardan is a First-Year in the Combined Degree program with Tufts University’s College of Arts and Sciences and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. They study Studio Art and Art History, with a growing focus on integrating contemporary art-theoretical scholarship with their art practice which focuses on Painting and Mark-Making. Having trained in the Sitar for 14 years, Rastislav was a National Scholar under India’s Centre for Cultural Research and Training and grew up learning from an ever-evolving group of musicians, artists and designers who are, in part, the focus of their Tedx talk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545567437-A7OGHWN3UHRTXMBLMT8Z/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - Space Debris: Solving Our Cosmic Mess | Senjuti Mallick Senjuti works at COMSPOC, supporting the space operations community to address current and emerging challenges in the space environment. Prior to this, she has worked as an Expert for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Emerging Tech Division and also taught international law for the Oxbridge summer program at Harvard Law School. She completed her Master's in International Law from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA specializing in international law and technology policy, with a particular focus in space law, laws of the sea and cyber security. Her thesis on space sustainability was selected for presentation at the 70th International Astronautical Congress, 2019. She is actively involved with the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) and International Institute of Space Law (IISL). Senjuti is a trained lawyer from India where she practiced law and worked as a judicial law clerk at the Hon'ble High Court of Delhi. She is a graduate of ILS Law College, Pune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666547410692-RFZXKRS2T01FD528MU09/image-asset.png New Gallery - Autistic Media Needs An Intervention | Shaina Cox Shania Cox is a freshman at Tufts University. As an autistic person, she has experienced many situations in which her identity was questioned. She believed that a big reason for this was the stereotypical representations of autistic people in the media. This is what sparked the idea for her TED talk. Through her talk, she hopes to challenge the current media that exists regarding autism and make people question the media that they are absorbing. Beyond her talk, Shania hopes to continue advocating for autistic voices during her time at Tufts and as a potential career venture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1666545620850-DMNIDHZ7K54XRURZR3WW/image-asset.jpeg New Gallery - The Space Between Looking and Seeing | Tamar Bresge Tamar Bresge is an artist and writer from Toronto, Canada. She works primarily in literary art, performance, and photography. Her work picks at questions of semiotics, hierarchies of bodies, and the location of the self. Informed by her own experience of blindness and vision, she questions the language used around sight, observation, perception, and self-knowledge. She likes to play in the sandbox of fantasy and fiction, and is obsessed with the metonymic chain of being. She is currently an MFA candidate at the SMFA at Tufts, with an upcoming thesis show in May 2022. https://www.tedxtufts.org/partnerships daily 0.75 2026-02-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1674759106297-3YBWU2A5NMN690RLE188/Untitled+design+%2817%29.png Partnerships https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1771434430235-SEC0OG8ILJMLXBC0BD3L/Screenshot+2026-02-18+at+12.05.05%E2%80%AFPM.png Partnerships https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1771434494781-2HQBQ5QR12VPB55X6BPS/Screenshot+2026-02-18+at+12.05.10%E2%80%AFPM.png Partnerships https://www.tedxtufts.org/de/reconstruct2023 daily 0.75 2025-02-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1710557319677-KO58ZQ7FQX039M6GARMT/Edited%2B-%2Bfacebook%2Bbanner%2Bted.jpg De/Re Construct https://www.tedxtufts.org/new-gallery-2 daily 0.75 2024-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705458406325-BP1RQF2BNU2SHOUP6XCU/image-asset.png New Gallery - A Revised Model of Life and Heredity | Anthony Monaco Anthony Monaco has been the president of Tufts University since 2011 and is currently serving in his final year. Prior to his presidency, he received is M.D. and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard University. Through his work as a geneticist, his research led to the discovery of the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and led a research group that first identified a particular gene that involved human speech and language. He went on to hold a faculty post at the University of Oxford where he eventually became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Planning and Resources before coming to Tufts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705458406325-BP1RQF2BNU2SHOUP6XCU/image-asset.png New Gallery - A Revised Model of Life and Heredity | Anthony Monaco Anthony Monaco has been the president of Tufts University since 2011 and is currently serving in his final year. Prior to his presidency, he received is M.D. and his Ph.D. in Neurobiology from Harvard University. Through his work as a geneticist, his research led to the discovery of the gene responsible for X-linked Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophies and led a research group that first identified a particular gene that involved human speech and language. He went on to hold a faculty post at the University of Oxford where he eventually became the Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Planning and Resources before coming to Tufts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705458950787-2V4KRIYVDW3135TRUKDK/image-asset.png New Gallery - How to Starve Patriarchal Clinical/Sexual Health Care | Ariel L. Watriss Ariel Watriss NP-C (any pronouns) is a health provider at Tufts University Health Services. They started there in 2013 and in June 2018 were promoted to be the Sexual health specialist for the clinic. While at Tufts, they have designed and implemented new clinical online programs increasing access to HIV PrEP, STI testing and contraception services. They serve as a main consultant to a peer health education group called the Sex Health Reps. Their professional areas of interest include LGBTQIA health, sexual health, and helping young adults navigate their own health advocacy. They also work closely with providers to develop improved clinical skills that are inclusive, trauma informed and consent based. They have presented talks at multiple national and regional conferences on HIV PrEP/PEP/sexual health, and have served as a panelist on various CDC and HRSA HIV prevention education programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705458981569-WHFJBHLNIOU5GRIQWYF1/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.19%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - Talking About Ourselves, Talking About Others: How Linguistics Can Help Us Make Conscious Language Choices | Calvin Gidney Calvin “Chip” Gidney is an Associate Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development at Tufts University where he teaches courses in children’s language development, bilingualism and bilingual education, and the introductory course in Child Development. He is the co-principal investigator of the Children’s Television Project (CTV), an ongoing longitudinal content analysis of children’s animated television that examines questions related to the representation of multiple identities and groups. His current work focuses on representations of fat characters in children’s cartoons, and its relationship to anti-fat bias in children. Dr. Gidney’s interest in sociolinguistics, the study of multiple social aspects of language structure and change, is influenced by his own lived experience as a multilingual, queer, African-American man. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459000507-50OY0AMNSXCEGIUUWPMN/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.23%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - Re-Imagining the Uterus and Endometriosis Disease | Juan Gnecco Juan Gnecco is an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, the principal investigator of the Laboratory of Reproductive Engineering, and an associate principal investigator at the Mother Infant Research Institute (MIRI) at Tufts University. Dr. Gnecco obtained a B.S. in Biotechnology from Rutgers University and a Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Pathology from Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) where he developed the first Organ-on-Chip model of the perivascular endometrium. He conducted his post-doctoral training at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the Dept. of Biological Engineering and led efforts to develop 3-dimensional (3D) reproductive tract models by defining the interplay between biophysical and biochemical cues on cell behavior using synthetic biomaterials and organoid technologies. In parallel, he initiated and led an effort to define the tissue microenvironment of the human endometriotic disease using tissue clearing and light-sheet imaging approaches. He is part of the World Endometriosis Research Foundation initiative to unify experimental models for endometriosis, a member of the Gates Foundation Global Health Integrative Organoid Consortium (2021) and was selected as a Rising Star in Engineering and Health by Columbia University (2020). His research interests lie at the interface of tissue engineering and reproductive biology to understand the immuneendocrine mechanisms driving both reproductive physiology and disease pathogenesis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459017894-VVA99JD8RK4AM24K8S1C/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.28%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - Dreading the Apocalypse? Go Watch A Movie! | Malia Kiang Malia Kiang is a Tufts senior majoring in Film & Media Studies with a minor in Philosophy. In addition to her studies, Malia develops curriculum and handson educational workshops in entrepreneurship for K12 students and enjoys performing with her a cappella group, Enchanted. She is from Honolulu, Hawai’i and has a deep love and appreciation for film and television. Her must-watch films include Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Ratatouille, and Grave of the Fireflies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459030147-HX8XTI768VJOGDKNNYZJ/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.33%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - How Pinball Flipped My Life | Michael Sandler Michael Sandler earned his Master of Arts in Teaching from Tufts in 2007 and has taught Psychology courses at nearby Arlington High School since then. A "Double Jumbo," he graduated with a B.A. in Anthropology in 1996. His years in the Crafts House spurred him to careers in design, home remodeling, and cooking before landing him back in the classroom. Michael's wife and two children know all too well about his enthusiasm for pinball, which he's excited to share at TEDxTufts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459037569-JEUE3TKAZ3GCMIAMLAR7/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.38%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - Still Mauled But Alive: Using Impuritan Thinking to Reimagine America's Criminal Justice System | Ravi Shankar Dr. Ravi Shankar is a Pushcart prize-winning poet, translator and professor who has published 15 books, including the Muse India award-winning translations Andal: The Autobiography of a Goddess and The Many Uses of Mint: New and Selected Poems 1997- 2017. Along with Tina Chang and Nathalie Handal, he co-edited W.W. Norton's Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia & Beyond called "a beautiful achievement for world literature" by Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer. He has taught and performed around the world and appeared in print, radio and TV in such venues as The New York Times, NPR, BBC and the PBS Newshour. He has won awards to the Corporation of Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony, fellowships from the Rhode Island and Connecticut Counsel on the Arts, founded one of the oldest electronic journals of the arts Drunken Boat, is Chairman of the Asia Pacific Writers & Translators (APWT) and recently finished his PhD from the University of Sydney. His memoir “Correctional” was published in 2021 with University of Wisconsin Press and he teaches creative writing at Tufts University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459050525-M2F18KBVQH33DVKEVH1O/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.43%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - What a Reproductive Justice Lawyer Wants You to Know About Rights and Advocacy After Dobbs | Sarah Lee Day Sarah Lee Day is a Justice Catalyst Fellow at Reproductive Equity Now, where she does legal policy work on abortion, contraceptive access, maternal health disparities, crisis pregnancy centers, and bodily autonomy in a “post-Roe” America. Sarah Lee earned her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, where she completed internships, including: human rights legal advocacy with the Due Diligence Project, reproductive rights impact litigation with the Lawyering Project, and reproductive rights policy work with NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts. Prior to law school, Sarah Lee obtained a B.F.A. from Cornish College of the Arts, a B.S. in Psychology from Arizona State University, and an M.A. in Social Justice and Human Rights from Arizona State University. Sarah Lee is currently teaching EXP-0024: The Right to Abortion at Tufts Experimental College. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459062584-OD908K6Y9EY32B0EEVTX/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.48%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - The Way of the Fool | Sheriden Thomas Sheriden is an American trained classical actress, who worked in the League of Resident Theatres circuit for decades, then she/they became a teacher and theatre director. In the last several years, Sheriden has found a sweet and more peaceful and playful home in the practice of Tai Chi and Physical Comedy – Clown. Sheriden retired from full time teaching at Tufts at the end of spring semester 2022. She is happy for the opportunity TEDxTufts for their 2023 series will afford. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c3c9cfaee1759924c805c4f/1705459072303-91DK4M7JW680VV65J4KU/Screenshot+2024-01-16+at+6.34.53%E2%80%AFPM.png New Gallery - Facing Mortality | Tamara Vesel Dr. Tamara Vesel is a pediatric and adult palliative care physician, Chief of the Division of Palliative care in the Department of Medicine at Tufts Medical Center and Associate professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston. Dr Vesel is committed to advancing care for patients with serious and life-limiting illness. Her areas of expertise include knowledge of pain and symptom management, communication in medicine, end-of-life care, bereavement support, medical ethics, integrative medicine, and clinical hypnosis and mindfulness in medicine. Dr. Vesel has research interests in the disparities in communication and end of life care, nationally and internationally. Prior to joining Tufts Medical Center, Dr. Vesel developed a pediatric hospice program in the Boston area and was a director of the Fellowship Program at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Dr Vesel is a recipient of several local and national awards including National Compassionate Caregiver of the Year Award 2021. 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