With TEDxMileHigh just around the corner, we’re getting more excited by the minute for inspiring women, game changing ideas, and engaging conversation about community impact and involved citizenship. We know it’s going to be a great experience for everyone involved! Want to feel even more connected? We’ve put together a list of Twitter handles, TED Talks, and articles about our speakers and team members and what they are about which will be sure to get you even more excited for the event.
For starters, be sure to use the hashtag #TEDxMileHigh and follow @TEDxMileHigh during the event to create a dialogue of conversation around the talks, exhibits, and the experience. If you use Twitter, use that tag!
Connect with our partners:
Car2Go: @car2go The Denver Foundation: @TDFcommunity Entropy Workshop: Website Fast Lane Productions: Facebook Gaetano’s: @LadyGaetano Happy Llama Printing: Website Luna Bar: @LUNAbar Runa Tea: @DrinkRuna Slice of Lime: @sliceoflime Wynkoop Brewing Company: @WynkoopConnect with the speakers:
Esmé Patterson—Songwriter- Twitter Handle: @EsmePatterson and @PaperBirdBand
- Organization: Paper Bird
- Suggested Reading: The 5280 Interview: Paper Bird’s Esme Patterson
- Relevant TED Talk: Abigail Washburn’s Building US-China Relations by Banjo
- Twitter Handle: @MIT and @MITBiology
- Organization: MIT
- Suggested Reading: Sara Volz, 17-Year-Old, Makes Groundbreaking Algae Biofuel Lab In Her Bedroom And Wins $100,000 Scholarship (VIDEO)
- Relevant TED Talk: Jonathan Trent’s Energy From Floating Algae Pods
- Twitter Handle: @MD_Poetry
- Organization: Minor Disturbance
- Suggested Reading: Denver’s Minor Disturbance Youth Slam Poetry Team Takes the Nation Again at Brave New Voices
- Relevant TED Talk: Bobby LeFebre’s Social Worker
- Twitter Handle: @ColoradoCollege
- Organization: Colorado College
- Suggested Reading: About Katherine Giuffre
- Relevant TED Talk: Sir Ken Robinson’s Do Schools Kill Creativity?
- Twitter Handle: @hutchins_julia and @COHealthOP
- Organization: Colorado HealthOP
- Suggested Reading: Hutchins New Colorado Health Insurance CO-OP CEO
- Relevant TED Talk: Eric Dishman’s Health Care Should Be a Team Sport
- Twitter Handle: @ilovemyanythink
- Organization: Anythink Libraries
- Suggested Reading: Architects of Dreams: Anythink’s Pam Sandlian Smith on the Power of Children’s Librarians
- Relevant TED Talk: Jay Walker’s My Library of Human Imagination
- Twitter Handle: @taylorteres
- Organization: Blue Valley Advisors, LLC.
- Suggested Reading: About the Author
- Relevant TED Talk: Nigel Marsh’s How to Make Work-Life Balance Work
- Twitter Handle: @Barahodeh
- Organization: Watson University
- Suggested Reading: About Bara’h Odeh
- Relevant TED Talk: Gayle Tzemach Lemmon’s Women Entrepreneurs, Example not Exception
- Twitter Handle: @DrHollyWyatt, @StateofSlim, @AnschutzWell, and @CUAnschutz
- Organization: Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus
- Suggested Reading: About Dr. Holly Wyatt
- Relevant TED Talk: Peter Attia’s What if We’re Wrong About Diabetes?
- Twitter Handle: @LynnMGangone and @DUWomensCollege
- Organization: Colorado Women’s College at the University of Denver
- Suggested Reading: About Lynn Gangone
- Relevant TED Talk: Lynn Gangone’s Embodying Inclusive Action
- Suggested Reading: Watergirls to Play TEDxMileHigh
- Relevant TED Talk: David Holt’s The Joyful Tradition of Mountain Music