Theme: Moments of Impact

TEDxRapidCity, an independently organized TED event, expands into a full day of talks, music, food, activities and most importantly, ideas. Twelve diverse talks will create moments of impact, but it's the attendees have the unique opportunity to discuss, debate, and share these ideas with community. Tickets are extremely limited and will sell out quickly. A full schedule of events will be sent to ticket holders at a later date. Join us for a day of ideas worth sharing!

The Dahl Fine Arts Center
713 7th Street
Rapid City, South Dakota, SD
United States

Albert Linderman

Cultural anthropologist

Albert Linderman, Ph.D., CEO of Sagis Corporation, is a cultural anthropologist guiding community change and leadership transitions. He currently directs Rapid City Collective Impact, a multi-year initiative for improving life and living in the city, particularly for those facing significant social service needs. Over the past few years Linderman worked with collective impact work in Woodbury, Minnesota, and leadership transitions for several major Minnesota health care organizations as well as for the Alliance of Community Health Plans in Washington, D.C. He is author of Why the world around you isn’t as it appears (2012, SteinerBooks), and lead author of "Surfacing and transferring expert knowledge: the sense making interview" Human Resource Development International, 2011, Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 353-362, and "Sense Making and Knowledge Transfer: Capturing the Knowledge and Wisdom of Nursing Leaders" Journal of Professional Nursing 2015, Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 290–297.

Alice Brouhard

Assistive Technology Champion

Alice Brouhard RN is a champion of the use of technology, especially tablet technology, to support people with memory and cognitive challenges. She has worked tirelessly to set up a system that allows her daughter who sustained a serious TBI to live independently despite significant disabilities. She sits on the Colorado Assistive Technology Coalition through the University School of Medicine. She speaks statewide and nationally at conferences on the use of high tech and low tech options to promote self sufficiency. Alice is a founding member of Colorado based "Families at the Forefront of Technology" and serves on the steering committee for their annual conference. She has developed and teaches classes at Colorado Mountain College on the use of iPad and iPhones. Alice, and her husband and daughter live in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. They are recent recipients of the 2016 Garfield County Humanitarian Service award -"Inspiring Hope."

Diane Knutson

National Park Ranger + Light pollution reseacher

Originally from Nebraska, Diane Knutson grew up in Dakota City and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Community Health Education from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She then earned a Master’s in Recreational Sports Administration at the University of Iowa and worked for the Iowa Athletic Department, before moving to Rapid City. Diane owns the fitness-training studio Koko FitClub and is a graduate of Leadership Rapid City. Recently crowned Mrs. Rapid City Corporate America, Diane competed at the national pageant in Orlando where she combined her experience in business, and passion for wildlife, into a platform about how corporate meets conservation. Diane is the creator of the Lights Out Movement in Rapid City. As a National Park Ranger at Wind Cave, Diane conducted research about how artificial lighting affects nocturnal habitats. This year she founded the inaugural Rapid City Dark Earth Hour in conjunction with the globally celebrated event

Don Frankenfeld

Forensic Economist + Father

Sixty-eight-year-old forensic economist Don Frankenfeld testifies in court nationwide as a financial expert. Don developed a special economic loss model for use by claimants to the Federal September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, and ultimately testified on behalf of victims more frequently than any other witness. He served in the South Dakota state senate from 1977—1984, chairing the tax committee for six years. Don was named a Bush Leadership Fellow in 1987, and became the Republican nominee for Congress in 1990, although South Dakotans voted overwhelmingly for his opponent. The Rapid City Journal later fired him as a regular columnist for insubordination. Don is a member of the Civic Center board, and serves as informal financial advisor to St. Martin Monastery. He is a graduate of Yale College, Harvard Business School, and Harvard’s Kennedy School. Don and Jean Frankenfeld have two adult children, Lindsay and David.

Jessica Lourey

Author

Jessica Lourey (MA, MS) is best known for her critically-acclaimed Murder-by-Month mysteries, which she began writing in 2002 to recover from her husband’s suicide. The series has racked up hundreds of thousands of downloads and earned multiple starred reviews from Library Journal and Booklist, the latter calling her writing "a splendid mix of humor and suspense." Lourey also writes sword and sorcery fantasy as Albert Lea, edge-of-your-seat YA adventure as J.H. Lourey, and magical realism, literary fiction, and thrillers under her given name. She has been a tenured community college writing and sociology instructor since 1998. In addition to classroom and online teaching, Lourey leads exciting, interactive novel-writing workshops all over the country, from New York to San Francisco, Seattle to Boston. You can find out more at www.jessicalourey.com

Leacey Brown

Gerontologist

Leacey E. Brown is a gerontologist advocating for broader discussions about aging and older adults. She currently serves as the SDSU Extension Gerontology Field Specialist. Troubleshooting skills gained as a member of the U.S. Air Force enhances her professional capacity, allowing her to break aging issues into more manageable parts. She is convinced many of the challenges we face as we age could be reduced by consumer driven solutions.

Lindsay Frankenfeld

Teacher + volunteer + daughter

Rapid City native Lindsay Frankenfeld is a Startup Community advocate and volunteer. Also, she is a teacher of English as a Second Language, freelance grant writer, UX/UI Designer, Brewery Associate at Miner’s, and former public radio reporter. A love for Western South Dakota brought Lindsay back home after 10 years away, attending college in Portland, Oregon, teaching English in Hokkaido, Japan, and marrying (and divorcing) a guy from Denver. She treasures the people she’s met and skills she has learned, particularly as a Fjord’s Ice Cream server, and as a journalist -- reporting and editing, taking photos, doing layout, folding newspapers for delivery, and taking out the trash, for the Todd County Tribune, and then working for South Dakota Public Broadcasting radio. Lindsay received a state Associated Press Best Feature Award in 2009 and a regional Edward R. Murrow Award in 2010

Lisa Gallagher

Author

Lisa Ann Gallagher is an author, freelance writer and social media strategist based in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Founder of the After November writing coursework and Ambassador for The OWN network of business women, Lisa is deeply committed to connecting people through the art of storytelling. She is the CEO of Evergreen Script Services LLC and the author of three published works ("Flower of Fire", "Incantations" and "The Laws of Gravity"). Her fourth book - a novel about Detroit, family and organized crime - is due in Fall 2016.

Michael Kimpur

Tribal elder + educator

Michael Kimpur is the founder and Kenya director of Daylight Center and School in Kenya (daylightcenter.org) and tribal elder of the nomadic Pokot tribe. He was educated as a World Vision sponsor child and went on to receive his M.A. in organizational leadership. Michael lives with his wife and children in Kapenguria, Kenya. Alongside Nathan Roberts he co-wrote POOR MILLIONAIRES: The Village Boy who Walked to the Western World and the American Boy Who Followed Him Home. You can read excerpts and watch videos at poormillionaires.org

Nathan Roberts

Minister + Educator

Nathan Roberts is the co-founder and US Director of Daylight Center and School in Kenya, which offers education to children affected by tribal violence and poverty (daylightcenter.org). He is an editor and author at The Salt Collective featuring diverse writers on social justice, gender, race, and religion (thesaltcollective.org). He serves as a minister in Minnesota and his new book was co-authored with former World Vision Sponsor Child and Daylight Co-Director Michael Kimpur: POOR MILLIONAIRES: The Village Boy who Walked to the Western World and the American Boy Who Followed Him Home. You can read excerpts and watch videos at poormillionaires.org. Follow Nathan on Twitter @nathaniroberts

Nora Boesem

Foster parent + Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Advocate

Nora Boesem and her husband began fostering in 2011 and have fostered over 100 children for the state of SD and the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe. Nora realized there was no help for families and founded Roots to Wings in 2008, a non-profit to help advocate and support people living with FASD. In 2008 she also started a parenting group with the support of BMS in Rapid City, SD that still runs today and has now expanded into a beginners group and an advanced parenting group. In 2009 she was appointed to the Governor’s mental health board, joined the Chiesman Center for FASD and began speaking around the state of SD and around the US. Returning to school she earned her BS in psychology and is currently in her last year of her MSW at Arizona State University. In 2014 Nora joined BMS in a program she spearheads called Facing FASD.

Sara Dahmen

Copper cookware craftswoman + author

Wedding planning, three children aged 5, 3 and 1, working with copper and iron, volunteering at the local library and school, putting iron over fire, researching the past and lifting weights. Oh, and writing. Lots of writing. Sara Dahmen is a successful small business entrepreneur, a relentless researcher, ghostwriter, guest blogger, and Griswold skillet drooler. Her days are often spent eyeball deep in copper, tin and iron and lots of phone calls. She believes hard work and perseverance are a hallmark of her generation, and that sleep is overrated, except on vacation. She has written and illustrated a children’s book series and wrote a historical fiction. If she’s lucky, her husband will finally capitulate and agree to be a tinsmith with her at the local reenactment. She is a Plein Air painter and avid cook, a reader of history and religion books and the weekly Economist.

Taylor Schad

Educator + Mentor

Taylor Schad is a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and currently positioned as an AmeriCorps VISTA assigned at the Boys and Girls Club of Rosebud serving as their Resource Development Specialist and Cultural Education Coordinator. She grew up in Rapid City, SD where she graduated Central High School. Taylor has spent the last four years at Stanford University working towards her BA in Native American Studies, graduating with honors in Education in June of 2015. While at Stanford, she was given the opportunity to study abroad at Oxford University where she studied Race Relations in the United Kingdom. Through work studies and a fellowship opportunity, Taylor used her summers to collaborate with various programs in western South Dakota, including Ateyapi (Rural America Initiatives) and Partnership with Native Americans. Taylor has recently been appointed to the board of directors for Networks of Support.

Vaughn Vargas

Industrial engineering student + Native American ambassador

Vaughn, a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe member, has lived in Rapid City for the past 25 years. Vaughn started his academic career at Oglala Lakota College with aspirations to establish a Counseling Service facility centric to Lakota Traditional values. Vaughn has matriculated to the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and will be graduating in December 2016 with a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. A few of Vaughn’s notable accomplishments are 2013 Mr. AIHEC (American Indian Higher Education Consortium), Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board "2013 Rising Star in Public Health and Research", 2014 Udall Foundation Scholar, 2015 National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development "40 Under 40", Hawkinson Foundation "2015 Peace and Justice Leader", and a 2016 Truman Foundation Finalist (pending notification). Vaughn is currently employed as the Community Advisory Coordinator for the Rapid City Police Department.