Past Talks

Reap & Sow Performance on Apr 1, 2016 | Roe Family Singers Band | TEDxMinneapolisSalon
Roe Family Singers Band

Harnessing the power of restlessness
Terry Esau

"I understand my injury; I don't accept it"
Jack Jablonski

Honoring Indigenous Cultures and Histories
Jill Fish

From COVID ICU to Ironman finish line
Ben O’Donnell

Executive function skills are the roots of success
Stephanie Carlson

Are All Relationships Messy?
Carol Bruess, Ph.D.

Opening Light Performance | Enticing Entertainment | TEDxMinneapolis
Enticing Entertainment

The impossible happens every day in the life of the refugee
Kao Kalia Yang

How Deep Brain Devices Open New Research into Brain Diseases
Jadin Jackson

How to inspire like a rock star
Michael Fanuele

Performance by batteryboy | batteryboy – @batteryboymusic | TEDxMinneapolis
Batterboy

Places and Spaces and the Behavior They Create
Damaris Hollingsworth

Performance at MacPhail Center for Music | Maria Isa | TEDxMinneapolisWomen
Maria Isa

Can Virtual Reality Change Your Mind?
Thong Nguyen

3D Printed Prosthetic Hands for the World
Desineni Subbaram Naidu

Why I Wear Purple
Andrea Jenkins

Opportunities of the On-Demand Economy
Tom Fisher

Performance at MacPhail Center for Music | Ananya Dance Theatre | TEDxMinneapolisWomen
Ananya Dance Theatre

Improv Closing Performance
Theater of Public Policy

The Geography of Inequality
Kevin Ehrman-Solberg

Let’s shape an economy that values connection over consumption
Neely Tamminga

Turning “A Worker Shortage” into “A Globally Fluent Workforce”
R.T. Rybak

Poor women are heroes, not victims
Fartun Weli

Dance as storytelling: Excerpts from Fires of Varanasi
Ragamala Dance Company

Sex Trafficking in Your Back Yard
Vednita Carter

Building bridges across racial divides: Let's keep building
Tru Pettigrew

A grieving artist goes viral finding flow
Josie Lewis

Stepping Into The Punch: Claiming Our Identity As America's North
Eric Dayton

All The Lights On: Reimagining Theater to Include Everyone
Michelle Hensley

Going natural: embracing my curls and finding my voice
Alex West Steinman

The revolutionary truth about kids and gender identity
Angela Kade Goepferd

Performance by Open Eye Theater | Open Eye Theater | TEDxMinneapolis
Open Eye Theater

What I Learned About Life from Death
Jane Whitlock

Performance at MacPhail Center for Music | Blythe Baird | TEDxMinneapolisWomen
Blythe Baird

Voices of Hope from within prison walls
Amanda Weber

Technology for the people, by the people
Kristen Murray

Live Performance @ TEDxMinneapolis | Sarah White + Band | TEDxMinneapolisSalon
Sarah White + Band

Why we need each other to survive and thrive after loss
Anne Harbison

Healing mental illness through brain network stimulation
Alik Widge

Great Cities Begin With Sidewalks
Bill Lindeke

Food can fuel economic growth in underserved communities
Glenn Ford

Performance at TEDxMinneapolis: Intention | Fires of 1918: Fantome Rosu Quartet
Fires of 1918: Fantome Rosu Quartet

How Genomics Will Change the Way We Treat Cancer Patients
George Vasmatzis

Meet You at the Red Bench
SHAPESHIFT Dance

Why adoptees need a new kind of village
Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC

How nanoparticles can help solve the global food crisis
Christy Haynes

The invitation
Margaret Anderson Kelliher

When Two Women Walk on Stage, it becomes a "Woman's Show"
2 Sugars Show

Is Performing Art Worth the Struggle?
Vie Boheme

How to see somebody naked
Nic Askew

Bionic humans aren’t science fiction
Michael McAlpine

Struggling to survive America’s real-time nightmare
Sagirah Shahid

Technoparenting: How tech can reconnect parents and kids
Lana Yarosh, Ph.D.

Heritage: Seek the uncensored guttural truth
Romeny Chan

Reclaiming cultural identity and language through hip hop
Tou SaiK Lee

Finding the words to heal from racial trauma
Dr Richard Lee

This blind Ironman turns disability into possibility
Louie McGee

Xenophobia in America: How we got here and what's at stake
Erika Lee

Climate Change Through Art and Dance
Dr. Cecilia Martinez and Chitra Vairavan

Why we should all eat bugs
Dr Sujaya Rao

Copyrighting all the melodies to avoid accidental infringement
Damien Riehl

Revealing our brain’s super-listening powers
Roger Dumas

Be better than fine
Nora McInerny

Summer’s Bounty—Ask Me For More
Pakou Hang

This Unlikely 1960s Space Tech Can Help Save the Bees
Rob Davis

How our kitchen tables affect our ability to thrive
Tasoulla Hadjiyanni

Breaking the Cycle of Gun Violence
Sherman Patterson

Sound and Color: I learned I have synesthesia and you could too
Sarah Kraning

Black kid white town: Hip hop, George Floyd, and brokenness
Nur-D

The Poet Talks of Freedom
Tish Jones

The Lasting Legacy of Place Names
Kate Beane, Ph.D.

Hip-Hop Diaspora and Diplomacy
Toki Wright

Pleasure to the People! Reclaiming Healthy Pleasure
Dr. Rachel Allyn

Beat Box + Cello + Flute
Julie Johnson, Jacqueline Ultan, and DJ Snuggles

It’s okay not to be the center of the Universe
May Lee-Yang

Engaging and empowering Somali youth
Mohamed Farah

Choice is an Illusion for the Unhoused
Dr. Brittany Lewis

Can a voice-interactive toy robot transform education?
DeLonn Crosby

How indigenous values can help sexual violence victims heal
Nicole Matthews

Te power of “art and”
Laura Zabel

Composing for choir, orchestra—and video projections
Jocelyn Hagen

Hack-Proofing Childhood: Ensuring our children's online safety
Zinet Kemal

The community transformed me when the system almost broke me
Jason Sole

Winter Innovation Grows Change for Northern Food System
Carol Ford

Kaleena Miller Dance | Kaleena Miller Dance | TEDxMinneapolis
Kaleena Miller Dance

Dance your way to empowerment (no experience required)
Brian Bose

Unraveling Gender: A Journey Through History and Self-Expression
Ruby Mathiason

Stop Training. Start Talking.
Leondra Hanson

Singing is Your Birthright
Ariella Forstein

How indigenous hoop dancers see the world
Sampson Brothers

A dream of touch when touch is gone
Black Label Movement

Performance at MacPhail Center for Music | ENCORE! Twin Cities Women's Choir | TEDxMinneapolisWomen
ENCORE! Twin Cities Women’s Choir

How cell phones and video gaming can help cancer patients
Dr. David Odde

The Power of the Black Experience in the Classroom
Dr. Keith Mayes

Can you make space for intuition in your industry?
Kirsten Johnson

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The side of climate change we must debate: how do we adapt
Jessica Hellmann

Flying cell towers are what the global fight to end poverty needs
Rahul Tiwari

Dance Performance at TEDxMinneapolis: Intention
Nkauj Ntxuam Dej

To Save Farming We have to Save Farmers
Eric Sannerud

Play Proud:Leveling the playing field for Muslim girls in sports
Fatimah Hussein

School as a positive element of change in our food system
Bertrand Weber