Theme: EDGE

TEDxLosGatosHighSchool: EDGE (Explore, Develop, Grow, Empower

20 High School Court
Los Gatos, California, 95030
United States

Amelia DeLaPaz

Amelia DeLaPaz earned a BS in geological and environmental science and an MA in science education from Stanford University. For over a decade, she has worked to increase awareness about Earth and environmental science issues. She has taught Earth science for The Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth and worked with the US State Department teaching Egyptian students outside of Cairo, Egypt. Amelia has taught both Earth and environmental science at Los Gatos High School for the past 10 years. She created and teaches the AP Environmental Science course at LGHS. Through that course she has given hundreds of students the opportunity to explore their environment through service- learning, long- term data collection from local waterways and regional and international field trips.

Dan Burns

Dan Burns is the AP Physics teacher at Los Gatos High School. He teaches workshops for educators at Lawrence Livermore National Labs and the Santa Clara County Office of Education. He helps run a program for new physics teachers called PTSOS. Dan has developed curriculum for SETI, NASA, and the USGS. Prior to becoming a teacherDan was an aerospace engineer at Lockheed where he designed advanced military space systems. Dan lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children and enjoys skiing, hiking, cycling, and walking his two dogs.

Guy Miller

Guy Miller, MD, PhD is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Edison Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Edison is a technology company focused on biological energy. The company’s pharmaceutical products are directed at rare childhood energy diseases. Dr. Miller holds a PhD in chemistry and an MD, with subspecialty training in critical care medicine. He completed his surgical internship at University of Chicago, and completed his residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins, where he was an assistant professor. His research has been funded by numerous organizations including DARPA. He is an attending physician in medical-surgical critical care at Stanford University Medical Center/PAVAMC.

Leilah Talukder

Leilah Talukder believes you can have a positive impact on the broader world from Los Gatos with vision, passion and dedication. The LGHS senior has seen her small actions bloom into impactful ventures in the last 5 years. While visiting a non-profit in Bangladesh in 2010 a simple question “How can I help these girls?” grew into the Language Outreach Club, working with the Sajida Foundation. Many LGHS students are empowered by its vision to change the world through education. Her coaching of disabled athletes grew from a love of synchronized swimming and a desire to reconnect to it after retiring as an international competitor.

Marico Sayoc

Marico Sayoc is currently Vice Mayor of the Town of Los Gatos. She was elected to the Town Council in November 2014 after serving 8 years on the Planning Commission. Marico graduated with a B.S. in Environmental Science at the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters in Environmental Management from Duke University. Prior to living in Los Gatos, Marico worked in Washington DC for the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Maritza Alarcón

Maritza R. Alarcón is focused on developing her forthcoming book, a field guide to increasing one’s happiness! She is inside of Stanford's Latino Entrepreneurship Initiative. She was recently granted a NBCUniversal Fellowship and began to identify The Happiest Humans in the United States via The Millennial Trains Project. She is featured on BuzzFeed's "21 Amazing Role Models For Ambitious Twentysomethings." She is one of the "Women Who Make America" in the MAKER series for AOL & PBS. She was honored at Carnegie Hall for Glamour Magazine's "20 Amazing Young Women" eremony. She has Bolivian and Salvadorean genes. She was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She now lives in California and loves it. #IAmHappiest

Mike D'Antonio

Captain Mike D’Antonio started his career with the Los Gatos-Monte Sereno Police Department in 2000. Mike later became a Field Training Officer responsible for training and evaluating new officers. In 2004, Mike was promoted to Detective and assigned to the Santa Clara County Specialized Enforcement Team, where he investigated high level drug traffickers, violent crimes and gang activity throughout the County. In 2008, Mike was promoted to the rank of Sergeant and returned to the Detective Bureau where he most notably investigated a high profile murder case. Next, Mike was promoted to the position of Detective Sergeant in charge of the Bureau of Investigations. In 2013, Mike was promoted to Captain and is now in command of both Police Operations and Support Services.

Nick McKeown

Nick McKeown is a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, where he teaches how the Internet works, and researches how to improve it. Nick grew up in England, and back in college he ran the UK student chapter of Amnesty International, which opened his eyes to the practice of executing people in the USA. We are unique among developed nations for executing so many of our own people, putting us in the company of Iran, Saudi Arabia, China and Syria. Since 1999, Nick has sought to end the death penalty.

Nora Denzel

Nora M. Denzel is a public company board director of Ericsson, AMD and Outerwall. She began her career in the Silicon Valley as a software engineer at IBM and went on to hold technical and senior executive roles at HP Enterprise, Legato Systems and Intuit. She has been named one of the Top 25 Women Engineers by Business Insider and one of The 10 Leading Women in Technology by CIO Magazine. She holds an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the State University of New York and an MBA from Santa Clara University. She is a trustee of the Anita Borg Institute dedicated to increasing the impact of women on all aspects of technology.

Samar Habib

Samar Habib is a writer, researcher and scholar. Her intellectual pursuits are punctuated by an interest in the macro-cosmic, the transhistorical and the transcultural. As a child survivor of war, she developed an early interest in improving the human experience. Her scholarship and literary works flow into an ocean of human endeavor seeking to think itself out of the human-made catastrophes that seem to be immutable characteristics of our history. A tireless advocate of human rights, Dr. Habib is an expert of international standing on Gender and Sexuality in the Arab world.