Talk Years: 2024
A consumer’s guide to climate-friendly food choices
Growing up in a small town in Wisconsin, Ben Kuethe Oaks dreamed of becoming a dairy farmer. He spent his youth lending a hand on nearby farms, but what he...
How to make work better for employees (and the bottom line)
In this eye-opening talk, workplace consultant Lisa Whited explores how the pandemic revealed deep-rooted issues in our work environments.
How poetry saved me from a cult
When award-winning poet and educator, Diannely Antigua, was nine years old, she and her family fell prey to a religious cult. For a decade, every aspect of her life was...
How sharks can help save us from a climate crisis
Humans kill more than 11,000 sharks each hour, translating into approximately 100 million sharks every year. If, on average, it takes you 10 minutes to listen to this talk, about...
A bear walks into a democracy…
A former elected official recounts the true story of a small town that descended into anti-government chaos. This cautionary tale explores how to strengthen democracy by tuning in to local...
How to live a whole life without a whole body
When she was eleven years old, Erica Kinney felt a pain in her leg on a Sunday walk with her mother. Less than 48 hours later, Kinney was getting the...
Embracing my multi-racial identity
When artist Victoria Carrington Chávez was 8, she landed in the school office because her mother did not check the race box. (At the time there WAS no box for...
The pre-dead social club
In her mid-50’s, Laura Cleminson realized how unprepared her family was for her mother’s death. In this poignant, funny talk she assures us, humans really DO want to “die-a-louge” about death, they just need some people to talk to!
A comedian’s guide to surviving a dysfunctional childhood
Comedian Juston McKinney’s childhood wasn’t very funny. At the age of 6, he witnessed his mother’s sudden death at a school event. He was raised by his mother’s sister and...
How AI is changing weather forecasting using ocean data
Hundreds of lives lost in the 2021 Texas Freeze resulted from decisions that ignored signals in weather forecasts weeks before the event. Affected by that experience, Matt Stein helped launch...
Giving freely: How free burgers break barriers
Caitlin McGrath-Levesque and her siblings travel in their free meal food trucks to provide fresh, made to order food to those in need. All without questions, limits or stigma.