TEDx Monterey

TEDx Monterey In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience.

04/17/2017

iLead+Design is a two-week summer intensive program for high school age youth in the Monterey and Salinas areas. Small impact teams use Design Thinking and Social Innovation to tackle community issues with real-world problem solving. Now in its fifth year.

TEDxMonterey...on the edge...At a White House conference about "bridging the word gap" participants learned what our aud...
10/17/2014

TEDxMonterey...on the edge...
At a White House conference about "bridging the word gap" participants learned what our audience already heard from Ann Fernald last spring, that quality matters when speaking to children

A new study found that the caliber of the words spoken to young children was more valuable than the number of words heard in the development of a child’s language skills.

The brave and very insightful Fariba Nawa - TEDxMonterey 2013 speaker - with an amazing article in Newsweek this week:
10/10/2014

The brave and very insightful Fariba Nawa - TEDxMonterey 2013 speaker - with an amazing article in Newsweek this week:

An inside look at one of the thousands of families across Europe torn apart as radicalised young Muslim men and women volunteer to fight for Islamic State's jihad

Two of our videos from TEDxMonterey 2014 have already been featured as Editor's Picks on the TEDxTalks website - congrat...
07/29/2014

Two of our videos from TEDxMonterey 2014 have already been featured as Editor's Picks on the TEDxTalks website - congratulations Sheril Kirshenbaum and Amy Benson!

Explore some of our favorite TEDxTalks in this week's Editor's Picks below, or browse past weeks' favorites in the left menu.

Maternal mental illness is finally getting the attention it deserves and is featured on the front page of the New York T...
06/16/2014

Maternal mental illness is finally getting the attention it deserves and is featured on the front page of the New York Times with the first of a series of articles about Mother's Mind http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/health/thinking-of-ways-to-harm-her.html?src=me&ref=general
We are so proud of our own Maureen Fura who spoke about her experience and quest at TEDxMonterey 2013:

Maureen Fura is a freelance video producer and storyteller. She lives in Miami with her husband, two beautiful boys and big black lab Sam. She enjoys daydrea...

Debra's honesty is a wonderful breath of fresh air and (I can only hope) a potential glimpse in my relationship with my ...
06/12/2014

Debra's honesty is a wonderful breath of fresh air and (I can only hope) a potential glimpse in my relationship with my future daughter.... Like I said I can only hope. :D

Amy Benson's talk from our April event, "The Heavy Burden of Hope - Girl's Education in the Developing World" has been s...
06/09/2014

Amy Benson's talk from our April event, "The Heavy Burden of Hope - Girl's Education in the Developing World" has been selected as a TEDx Editor's pick of the week! Connect with Amy and Scott's documentary project "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" via Facebook here: https://www.facebook.com/GirlWhoKnewTooMuch - let's help them bust the 1,000 likes barrier!

You can find and subscribe to TEDx Editor's Picks on the TEDx Talks site here: http://tedxtalks.ted.com.

Betty Sproule had the audience laughing and reflecting about our relationship with stuff in her light and fun TEDxMonter...
06/04/2014

Betty Sproule had the audience laughing and reflecting about our relationship with stuff in her light and fun TEDxMonterey talk this year. Did you know that there are more personal storage facilities in America than Starbucks? Get with the program and lighten your load. Betty is here to help you get to your "right stuff" and help us all work toward a more sustainable, happy future.

Exploding with truth and raw emotion, Mikey Frias, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Salinas, brought the audience to tea...
06/03/2014

Exploding with truth and raw emotion, Mikey Frias, the first Youth Poet Laureate of Salinas, brought the audience to tears and to their feet with his poetry.

The human capacity for language and communication across cultures is breathtaking! In what may be the first tri-lingual ...
05/25/2014

The human capacity for language and communication across cultures is breathtaking! In what may be the first tri-lingual TEDx talk, professional conference interpreters Barry Olsen, Laura Burian and Miguel Garcia demonstrate the craft of consecutive and simultaneous interpretation while working with colleagues Weihao Zhang (Chinese) and Beatriz Rodriguez (Spanish).

How are you supposed to "lean-in" when you are already maxed out?  In this thought-provoking talk about women and work K...
05/22/2014

How are you supposed to "lean-in" when you are already maxed out? In this thought-provoking talk about women and work Katrina Alcorn seeks to further the conversation started with Sheryl Sandberg's call to action for women, to a discussion about a society that leans in to parenting.

What happens when you lean-in and fall right over? Author and mother Katrina Alcorn was juggling a fast-paced dream job and motherhood until the day she just...

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