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  • Wednesday, December 8, 2021

    Virtual Event: 6pm - 8pm Central Time

    What a time it has been! The past year has upended so much for so many, and forced global reckonings with systems, processes, and policies that too often let us down. 

    So … what now? 

    At this year’s TEDxWomen, we’ll hear from speakers who are imagining new possibilities and exploring new ideas for how we might live and work better together in the years to come. We'll learn the “what now?” in fields including design, technology, science, and culture — and together, we'll envision a future we can build together.

  • Wednesday, December 8, 2021

    Virtual Event: 6pm - 8pm Central Time

    Speaker Application Deadline: October 24, 2021

    What a time it has been! The past year has upended so much for so many, and forced global reckonings with systems, processes, and policies that too often let us down. 

    So … what now? 

    At this year’s TEDxWomen, we’ll hear from speakers who are imagining new possibilities and exploring new ideas for how we might live and work better together in the years to come. We'll learn the “what now?” in fields including design, technology, science, and culture — and together, we'll envision a future we can build together.

  • OUR TEDx Women SPEAKERS

    Ana	Salazar - Counselor + Researcher

    Ana Salazar - Counselor + Researcher

    “Self-Care” is Whitewashing Our Wellness - There are pressures all around us to use “self-care” to achieve, meet our goals, be successful, and be worthy of admiration. The whitewashed ideal of successful self-care in the forms of spa days, marathon training, and quiet solitude diminishes the beauty, strength, and breadth of wellness available to historically marginalized individuals and communities.
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    Cat Moore - Director of Belonging, USC

    Cat Moore - Director of Belonging, USC

    You belong: the most powerful fact of life - Belonging is our first human right and the bedrock of wellbeing as individuals and societies. So why does the experience of belonging feel so fragile and elusive? In an age of widespread, painful loneliness, we can become wifi hotspots of belonging for each other everywhere we already are through the simple acts of Attending, Beholding and Caring.
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    Cecilia Garcia Akers - Author

    Cecilia Garcia Akers - Author

    A Daughter's Perspective - Writing a book about a personal issue, is very emotional and difficult. To convey your own life to the public, and how the influences in your life helped shape a country is overwhelming but inspiring to others. That is what I would want to convey to others.
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    Lisa	Swift-Young - Philanthropist + Author

    Lisa Swift-Young - Philanthropist + Author

    Why You Should Savor Giving - Does your giving sometimes feel in vain? What if your knew your gift would have positive impact on the giver and the receiver? Everyday philanthropists are living happier lives and you can too. No minimum net wealth required.
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    Shawna Blake - Comedian + Educator

    Shawna Blake - Comedian + Educator

    Laughing Matters - 2020 has shown us that while laughter might not be the BEST medicine (thank you, vaccines) it is certainly necessary. Humor's role in processing trauma, connecting people in tough times, and raising awareness of important issues is important to realize and utilize, now more than ever.
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    Sarah Gonzales - Communications Instructor

    Sarah Gonzales - Communications Instructor

    Why Her? Embracing the past to charge the future. - "Love makes you do crazy things". This old saying describes the moment I turned my back on my family for love until the day I needed to leave a dangerous domestic violence situation and needed my family's help. The moment they dropped everything to take me back, broken, and all, shaped the way I paved my new life.
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    Kriti	Vashisht	- Assistant Professor

    Kriti Vashisht - Assistant Professor

    Serving Me, so I can Serve You!
    Have you encountered challenges in balancing your role as a social justice advocate/activist, while trying to practice self-care and perseverance? I am here to talk about how we can best position our roles in social justice causes, so that the spotlight stays on the cause instead of us, and also why we must make sure we “put on our own oxygen masks first before assisting others.”
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    Amy Aldridge Sanford, PhD

    Meet Our Event Curator

    Imagine a day filled with brilliant speakers, thought-provoking videos, and mind-blowing conversations. This TEDxWomen event is a local grassroots initiative led by volunteers, created in the spirit of TED's overall mission.
    Amy Aldridge Sanford’s passion for public speaking began at an early age and was cultivated through her participation in Girl Scouts, the church, and student clubs. She competed in her first speech contest in the 8th grade, and by the end of the year, won a national title with perfect scores. She held many local, district, and state leadership positions in high school and frequently gave keynote addresses, leadership workshops, and banquet speeches across her home state of Oklahoma. Amy received enough scholarship money that she graduated debt-free with a bachelor’s degree in communication education in 1999 and was the first in her family to earn a college degree. She went on to receive two master’s degrees and a Ph.D. in communication studies from the University of Iowa in 2006. She has spent her entire career as a university educator and administrator, and in 2020, added the title of book author with the publication of “From Thought to Action: Developing a Social Justice Orientation” – appearing often on Amazon’s list of Top 100 Political Advocacy Books. Amy is the past president of the Central States Communication Association, a former TEDx speaker, and has been honored with many local, state, and national awards, including Outstanding College Forensics Coach in Oklahoma and University Communication Educator of the Year in both Texas and Oklahoma.
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    Dr. Tammy Francis
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    Barbara Craig-Schniepp
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    Suraida Nanez-James
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    Liza Mucheru Wisner
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