This year's theme is "Exploring the Footnotes." Speakers include:

Betsy Bradley and Lauren Taylor, public health specialists, co-authors of "The American Health Care Paradox"
Casey Neistat, NY-based filmmaker
Kristina Talbert-Slagle, Yale professor and global health researcher
Felicia Ricci, actress, author
David McCullough, Jr., educator
Mark Saltzman, biomedical engineer
Sam Kean, science writer
Emily Coates and Sarah Demers, physicists and dancers
Cynthia Schneider, Brookings Institution and former ambassador to the Netherlands
Robert Shiller, Nobel Laureate in economics
Richard Deming, writer and English professor
Marvin Chun, psychologist

Yale Repertory Theatre
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Betsy Bradley and Lauren Taylor

Elizabeth H. Bradley is a professor of public health at Yale University and director of the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute. She is a graduate of Harvard University, has an MBA from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. in health economics and policy from Yale. She has received numerous honors and awards during her career, including being a three-time recipient of the Teacher of the Year award by the Yale School of Public Health; the John D. Thompson Young Investigator Award, and the Investigator Award by the Donaghue Medical Research Foundation. She has served as a fellow with the Gerontological Society of America and is a member of the World Economic Forum. She has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications. Lauren A. Taylor is the co-author of The American Health Care Paradox. She is a graduate of Yale College (BA) and Yale School of Public Health (MPH) and now studies global health and medical ethics at Harvard Divinity School, where she is a Presidential Scholar.

Emily Coates and Sarah Demers

A dancer, writer, and choreographer, Emily Coates directs the dance studies curriculum at Yale University. She has performed internationally with New York City Ballet, Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Twyla Tharp Dance, and Yvonne Rainer. Her choreographic work has been presented at Jacob’s Pillow, Cornell, Harvard, St. Mark’s Church, Performa, Ballet Memphis, and Baryshnikov Arts Center, among other venues. Sarah Demers is a particle physicist and an assistant professor in the Yale Physics Department. As a member of the International ATLAS Collaboration at CERN, she studies elementary particles and the forces that govern their interactions. In 2011 she received an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy for her work at CERN. She leads a Higgs Boson analysis group at ATLAS and is co-authoring, with Emily Coates, an interdisciplinary book on physics and dance, forthcoming from Yale University Press.

Abhinav Nayar

Abhinav Nayar is studying Ethics, Politics & Economics at Yale University. He has worked in international development in multiple sectors especially education, healthcare, energy, and agriculture. Abhinav recently helped start a social business in Brazil to increase incomes of small-scale farmers. His TED talk was inspired while trying to utilize technology to bridge inequalities of access. Abhinav previously worked as an Analyst at Dalberg Global Development Advisors in Mumbai where he helped launch a $1bn fund to scale primary education programs globally. He also co-wrote the IFC Lighting Africa report which maps the evolution of the off-grid lighting market using business to end energy poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. Abhinav is from Jamshedpur, India, and will graduate from Yale University in May 2015. He enjoys working in new countries, good conversation, and bright ideas.

Colton Jang

Colton Jang is a sophomore in Pierson College majoring in Economics. He serves as the Director of Client Services at the Elmseed Enterprise Fund in New Haven, providing low-cost business planning services to local entrepreneurs. He is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of LeapYear Innovations, an optimization consulting firm that specializes in advanced data analytics, applied mechanism design, and algorithmic solutions. A California native, Colton enjoys hiking, rock climbing, basketball, and making card houses.

David McCoullough Jr.

David McCullough, Jr., an English teacher at Wellesley High School in the Boston suburbs, achieved sudden fame in 2012 with his commencement speech. He told graduating students, “you’re not special” nine times, and his speech went viral on YouTube.

Felicia Ricci

Felicia Ricci is an author, performer, voice teacher, entrepreneur, and self- described five-trick pony who loves to make creative mischief. She was last seen as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady at the Shubert Theater, opposite David Alan Grier and Reg Rogers. She received her English degree from Yale University, where she won the J. Edward Meeker Prize for nonfiction, the Saybrook Master’s Award, and the Louis Sudler Prize for the arts.

Jen Kramer

One of America’s most celebrated young magicians, Jen Kramer (MagicofJen.com) has been wowing audiences around the world for the past decade with her contagious smile and award-winning sleight-of-hand. She has been featured performing magic on national television, served as Founder and President of the Yale Magic Society, worked for the Nathan Burton Comedy Magic Show at the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, founded a magic rehabilitation program at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital, and won first place in the Tannen’s junior close-up magic competition. Magic legend David Blaine described Jen as “one of the most talented and most promising young magicians anywhere.”

John Gonzalez

John Gonzalez is a senior in Ezra Stiles College majoring in Economics. At Yale he has been active in student government, previously serving as the Yale College Council President. He also manages a popular YouTube account, crazyasianpiano, where he teaches people how to play popular music on the piano. The account has grown to over 156 videos, 11,000 subscribers, and 6.9 million total video views. After graduation, John will teach secondary math in New Orleans, as a Teach for America Amgen Fellow. A California native, John enjoys performing comedy, harmonicas, and melodicas.

Kristen Talbert-Slagle

Kristina Talbert-Slagle

Kristina Talbert-Slagle is the Senior Scientific Officer at the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute and a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. With a Ph.D. (Yale ’10) in viral genetics and postdoctoral experience in innovation spread and complex systems theory, Dr. Talbert-Slagle has built a career around bridging disciplines. She has collaborated with Gen. Stanley McChrystal to study how the health of a human body can serve as a model for the health of a nation, and she has partnered with social scientists at Yale to study how HIV, a very simple virus, can serve as a model for innovation spread in human systems.

Mark Saltzman

W. Mark Saltzman is an engineer and educator. He is the Goizueta Foundation Professor of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering at Yale University. His research has impacted the fields of drug delivery, nanobiotechnology, biomaterials, and tissue engineering: this work is described in over 250 research papers and 15 patents. He is the author of three textbooks: Biomedical Engineering (2009), Tissue Engineering (2004), and Drug Delivery (2001). His course Frontiers of Biomedical Engineering is available to everyone through Open Yale Courses (http://oyc.yale.edu).

Marvin Chun

Marvin Chun is a cognitive neuroscientist with research interests in visual attention, memory. and perception. His lab employs neuroimaging (fMRI) and behavioral techniques to study how people perceive and remember visual information. His work in visual attention explores why people can consciously perceive only a small portion of all of the sensory information coming through the eyes. The lab’s research on memory investigates the neuronal correlates of memory encoding and retrieval. What are the fMRI signatures of memory traces in the brain? Much of his work on the interactions between memory and attention has centered on the role of context and associative learning. Finally, our work in perception examines the fundamental question of how the brain discriminates objects to make quick, efficient perceptual decisions.

Natalia Khosla

Natalia is a senior at Yale in Saybrook studying Psychology. She works in theIntergroup Relations Lab on gender and racial biases in workplaces. On campus,Natalia dances with YaleDancers, edits the Yale Review of Undergraduate Research in Psychology, and serves on the board of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center in New Haven. She misses dancing with the Yale Bhangra Team, but continues to enjoy dancing Bhangra, Bharatanatyam, and Bollywood in her spare time. Natalia aspires to practice as a physician, and to serve as a policy advisor to improve gender diversity in the leadership of medicine.

Richard Deming

Richard Deming is a poet and a theorist whose work explores the intersections of poetry, philosophy, and visual culture. His collection of poems, Let’s Not Call It Consequence (Shearsman, 2008), received the 2009 Norma Farber Award from the Poetry Society of America. He is the author of Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading (Stanford UP, 2008), and he contributes to such magazines as Artforum, Sight & Sound, and The Boston Review. His poems have appeared in such places as Iowa Review, Field, Indiana Review, and The Nation. He teaches at Yale University where he is the Director of Creative Writing. He was the Spring 2012 John P. Birkelund Fellow of the American Academy in Berlin.

Robert Shiller

Robert J. Shiller is Sterling Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management. He received his B.A. from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in economics from MIT. He has written on financial markets, financial innovation, behavioral economics, macroeconomics, real estate, statistical methods, and on public attitudes, opinions, and moral judgments regarding markets. He writes a regular column for Project Syndicate, published around the world, and for The New York Times. Professor Shiller was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, together with Eugene Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, “for their empirical analysis of asset prices.”