Theme: Paradigm Shift

TEDxDartmouth is a local independently organized TED event taking place in Hanover, NH. This year's theme is "Paradigm Shift.” We have an amazing lineup of 12 speakers including Dartmouth faculty, alumni, students, and visiting guest speakers as well as performances by Dartmouth student groups. Join us for a fantastic opportunity to learn about local ideas worth spreading and the power of experiential learning. Open and free to all Dartmouth students, staff, and community members from the Upper Valley.

TEDx was created in the spirit of TED's mission, "Ideas Worth Spreading." TEDxDartmouth seeks to instill a deep sense of curiosity in our community, increase awareness of interdisciplinary studies, and foster excitement for lifelong learning. We hope to connect our audience to diverse ideas and provide speakers with an opportunity to showcase their interests and spark discussion across disciplines. The event is a great networking opportunity for students and community members in the Hanover area to engage with experts in their field.

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Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
3 Maynard Street
Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755
United States

Aaron Lit

Social Entrepreneur and Fashion Designer

Aaron Lit is a marine life enthusiast and published underwater photographer who aspires to raise awareness of marine biodiversity through art. His fashion project MiaMira is a collection of designs inspired purely by the patterns and colors of creatures found underwater, and has garnered support from the United Nations, James Cameron’s Avatar Alliance Foundation, and the Resolution Project. He hopes that his designs will act as visual catalysts to motivate conscious consumerism. Aaron is a student from Hong Kong studying Mathematics and Economics at Dartmouth College, USA. During the summer of his sophomore year, he worked as a Paganucci Fellow at the Tuck School of Business to strategize fundraising and marketing for an educational nonprofit in Peru. Looking ahead, Aaron intends to explore his interests in marine conservation, sustainable fashion, and social entrepreneurship.

Alice Liou

Educator and Storyteller

Alice Liou is an educator who works with young people to use design and storytelling to build critical community. She is currently a Ph.D. student in Social Studies Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, studying youth activism and the pedagogical practices that sustain its development. She has been a middle school teacher, a curriculum designer, and an educational researcher. Alice graduated from Dartmouth College in 2013 and received her Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2017.

Anne Sosin

Director of Dickey Center Global Health Initiative

Anne Sosin is a public health professional with experience in human rights and international development. For more than ten years, she has designed and led partnerships to advance global health equity in a range of low and middle income settings. Anne currently manages the Global Health Initiative at the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College. Anne began her career as a human rights worker in Haiti, where she helped to establish community-based programs for women survivors of sexual violence. In Rwanda, she led district and national health partnerships to support reconstruction of the country’s health system. Anne holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a MPH from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Bobbi Wegner

Clinical Psychologist

Bobbi Wegner, Psy.D. is a clinical psychologist, behavioral medicine specialist, teacher, speaker, and parent to three young kids. Over the past ten years, she focused on the impact of stress on kids, parents, and families. She treats, teaches, writes, and speaks on these issues, seeing individuals and families at Boston Behavioral Medicine and teaching at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She regularly writes on parenting and stress, and is a blogger for Psychology Today (Perfectly Imperfect Parenting: Psychologically Sensitive Approaches to Raising Emotionally Durable Kids), a writer for Thrive Global, an ‘Expert’ on NBC News’ www.parenttoolkit.com, and often publishes on large mainstream parenting sites. And, she speaks to schools and organizations about the importance of managing stress and anxiety, focusing on the need to shift the current parenting culture, and giving practical, real-life skills to the audience.

Buddy Teevens

Dartmouth Head Football Coach

Eugene “Buddy” Teevens is a 1979 Dartmouth College graduate with a degree in History. He entered the coaching profession at DePauw University after graduation, followed by stops at Boston University, University of Illinois, University of Florida, Stanford University, and more. He is currently the Head Football Coach at Dartmouth College. Recently, he was named to the NCAA Committee on Competitive Safeguards and Medical Aspects of Sport. He has also has been involved with the NCAA Summit on Concussive Head Injury, and the BIG 10 / Ivy Consortium on Concussive Head Injury. In 2016, he was asked to testify in front of Congress regarding football safety, and has been a member of multiple panel discussions on the topic including the Aspen Institute. The Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) appointed him to their Board of Directors in 2017. In conjunction with the Thayer School of Engineering, he has developed a mobile tackling robot that was designed to reduce player on player contact.

Joseph Rosen

Plastic Surgeon

Dr. Joseph M Rosen, MD, is currently a Professor of Surgery at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in the section of Plastic Surgery and an Adjunct Professor of Engineering at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. In addition to his position at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center he is an Attending Surgeon at the VA White River Junction. His basic science research interests include nerve gap repair; microsurgery and transplantation of limbs; computer aided surgery; virtual reality simulators and methods of education; telemedicine and informatics; healthcare delivery for medical disasters and counter measures for bio-terrorism.

Lauren Sapone

Student Athlete and Runner

Lauren grew up near the beaches of central New Jersey and as her parents tell it, was destined to be a runner since two years of age when one day she ran way too far ahead of them on the boardwalk headlong into the wind, squealing with delight. Fast-forward twelve years, when Lauren began training to run year-round, and she soon realized how her running career would provide her with many of life’s lessons at an early age. As a proud member of the Dartmouth Cross Country and Track team, she continues to learn those lessons to this day. Lauren is a second year student at Dartmouth College majoring in Economics and planning to minor in Human-Centered Design, with career interests in consulting, technology, and entrepreneurship. Lauren’s pursuit of finding a healthy balance between academics and athletics has made her passionate about the need for society to continue to reframe its views of the disquietude so common in her generation.

Michele Battle-Fisher

Health Systems Scientist

Michele Battle-Fisher is a scholar of health systems science, specializing in applying systems science and systems thinking to public health policy, bioethics and clinical medicine. She founded and wrote for the academic oriented, systems thinking and health blog, Orgcomplexity. She was formally introduced to the study of systems science at the 2012 National Institutes of Health Institute on Systems Science and Health. She is a member of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science and a Research Scholar for the Ronin Institute. As Adjunct Assistant Professor at Wright State University Boonshoft School of Medicine, she wrote Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy and Public Health Ethics- Public Health and Private Illness (Springer), a 2016 Doody’s Core Title.

Pat Hedley

CEO of The Path Ahead and Author

Pat is an investor, advisor and the author of Meet 100 People. Inspired by the experiences of thousands of people she has interacted with over her own thirty-year career, Pat wrote Meet 100 People to encourage us all to proactively and consistently meet people in person. Everyone tells you to network, but no one tells you how to do it. Pat reframes networking to make it accessible, joyful and life-affirming especially as one is starting his or her career. Pat is the founder and CEO of The Path Ahead, an advisory firm working with growth companies. She has invested in several innovative private companies with energetic management teams who solve old problems in new ways. Prior to her current role, Pat spent 30 years with global growth investor, General Atlantic, most recently as managing director. She began her career as a consultant with Bain & Company. Pat is a graduate of Dartmouth College with a degree in computer science and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Praveen Kopalle

Professor of Marketing and Dean at the Tuck School of Business

Praveen Kopalle is Associate Dean for the MBA Program, Signal Companies’ Professor of Management, Professor of Marketing at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College. Praveen received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and B.E. from Osmania University. Professor Kopalle’s teaching and research interests are in Marketing, Statistics, Pricing, new products/innovation, promotions, customer expectations, and e-commerce. Praveen’s research has been published in many top-tier journals including Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Marketing Science, Management Science, International Journal of Research in Marketing, etc. He has been invited to speak at over fifty universities and institutes worldwide.

Rahul Sarpeshkar

Professor of Engineering, Microbiology & Immunology, Physics, and Molecular & Systems Biology

Rahul Sarpeshkar is the Thomas E. Kurtz Professor and Professor of Engineering, Microbiology&Immunology, Physics, and Molecular and Systems Biology at Dartmouth. He has worked on analog and bio-inspired circuits and computation for over 25 years to architect many first and best accomplishments in the fields of bioelectronics; synthetic biology; ultra-energy-efficient medical devices; supercomputing integrated-circuit hardware; and analog computers in living cells. He has authored over 135 publications including one that made the cover of NATURE, holds 36 patents, and is the Chair of the Neukom Cluster of Computational Science. Recently, he has invented techniques that utilize classical analog circuits to efficiently emulate and to design novel quantum and quantum-inspired analog computers some of which emulate the best computational paradigms in physics, chemistry, and biology.

Valentina Garcia Gonzalez

Immigration Activist

Valentina Garcia Gonzalez is an immigrant from Florida, Uruguay. She migrated to the state of Georgia when she was six-years old and has been undocumented ever since. She has been a DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) beneficiary since 2014 and an avid activist for undocumented students' rights to higher education. Through her work alongside Freedom University Georgia, she has spoken at numerous colleges and universities along the East Coast and has helped implement new policies that allow and help undocumented students attend private institutions, worked with allies to form working groups at their respective colleges, and has facilitated civil disobediences hand-in-hand with Atlanta Student Movement leaders of the 1960s and 1970s. She is a current third-year student at Dartmouth College studying Geography and Global Health. Her interests and passions manifest in her desire use her skills, education, and experience to bridge public health inequities locally and globally.